by JOCSM | Nov 16, 2017 | Analysis, Organizing |
By Mark Tseng-Putterman Remarks from JVP’s “Not A Conflict” mini-conference (November 13, 2017), in response to the question: How do you see fights against antisemitism connected to or in tension with other fights for racial justice and against Islamophobia? I want to... 
by JOCSM | Aug 23, 2017 | Analysis, Organizing |
By Lesley Williams The following piece is the text of a speech by Lesley Williams at the Stephen Douglas Monument, on behalf of the Resists, Reimagine, Rebuild Coalition, August 19th 2017. It was orginally posted on her blog The Cranky Librarian and is posted here... 
by JOCSM | Mar 27, 2017 | Analysis, Essay, Organizing |
By Sydney Levy Last month, I found myself praying at the Wailing Wall — but I was not in Jerusalem. I was at the wall that separates San Diego from Tijuana. It is a metal structure that extends eastward as far as the eye can see into the horizon, and that dips... 
by JOCSM | Mar 10, 2017 | Analysis, Organizing |
By Sydney Levy Growing up as a Jewish kid in Venezuela, Purim was one of the many calendar dates that separated us from the non-Jewish population. The rest of the country dressed up for Carnaval, and a few weeks later we dressed up for Jewish Carnaval,... 
by JOCSM | Feb 23, 2017 | Analysis |
By Mark Tseng-Putterman A few weeks after the election, I had dinner at my grandparents’ house. I typically associate my visits to their home with raucous family gatherings of a cross-section of our grandparents’ six children and twenty-odd grandkids. But this was an... 
by JOCSM | Feb 17, 2017 | Analysis, Organizing |
By Airport Traveler Muslim travelers are detained at the airport and questioned, without access to lawyers, about their social media accounts and about their immeasurable loyalty to the country they are about to enter. They are threatened with deportation. The whole...