Alix Kates Shulman reflects on the history of Women's Liberation and sees today's #MeToo Movement as a direct descendent of the consciousness-raising efforts of the 1960s.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Peril and Promise
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In a time of global uncertainty, Rev. Dr. Alton B. Pollard III stresses the need for unshakeable spiritual leadership.
Jewish Wisdom
Seeking the Feminine Divine
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Shelly Fredman imagines the feminine face of God in order to challenge "the decidedly male bent of our tradition."
Tikkun Daily
How dare modern psychologists challenge traditional views of masculinity!
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Ron Seigel argues that we need to reimagine masculinity so that we no longer celebrate "the the masculinity of meanness [but rather] the masculinity of meaning."
Justice for All
Declaring My Gender Liberation
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Warren J. Blumenfeld travels a journey out of yet another closet: "My pronouns are Warren, Warren, and Warren in the first, second, and third person."
Justice for All
Learning from the Teacher Walkouts
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Lois Weiner examines recent teacher walkouts and reminds us that, if they are to be successful, social movements must uproot all forms of oppression.
Justice for All
Pregnancy as Risk: When Access to Care Really Matters
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MaryAnne Mercer shares a riveting story about the tragic results when mothers-to-be do not have access to quality healthcare and reminds us of the importance to fight for universal care for all.
Race
Louis Farrakhan, Meir Kahane, and the Politics of Purity
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Shaul Magid addresses the corrosive, divisive nature of purity politics on the left and why a more nuanced approached is needed.
Politics & Society
Farrakhan & the Women’s March: An Unholy Connection
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Cat Zavis reflects on what healing and reconciliation can look like when anti-Semitism (or any other -ism) rears its ugly head.
Justice for All
Missing Shulamith and the Dialectic of #MeToo
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Martha Sonnenberg grapples with the present-day #MeToo movement and the 1970 version as articulated by Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex to help us envision a transformative movement.
Gender_&_Sexuality
Reflections on Theology from an Anglo-Jewish Feminist Perspective
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Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology by Carol P Christ and Judith Plaskow.
Articles
Love Will Not Save You
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For years after, you will ask yourself, Should I have held her that night? Do you hold someone who tells you this? You won’t remember holding her...
Politics & Society
Scholarship Against Desire
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First published in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities as part of the Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal Writing and Research Commons. [1]
“Where is your heart in this work?”
I often pose this question to faculty candidates I’m interviewing after they share their scholarly agenda. A depressing proportion seems baffled by the question. One refreshingly honest candidate answered: “It’s not.” He had started his career writing about a topic he was passionate about, but had concluded that it hurt his marketability. So he switched, and his stock went up.
30.3 Summer
The Genesis of Gender
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A closer look at the Book of Genesis reveals how deeply the gender binary is ingrained in our culture. What would it mean to smash this binary?
Israel/Palestine
Safe Space? Hillel’s Policies Drive a Wedge Between Queerness and Judaism
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Hillel will never be the truly pluralistic community it claims to be until it makes a commitment to including all Jews, regardless of their political views on Israel/Palestine. Until then, it will continue to leave disproportionate numbers of queer students without a Jewish home on campus.