Identity & Ideas

Identity & Ideas

Identity | Ideas

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Global Secular Judaisms

How Sociology can be used to explore

secular Jewish identities, cultures, and practices.

By Caryn Aviv

The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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How anarchist and agitator Emma Goldman earned her title.

By Sephora Markson Hartz

Is There Such A Thing as "Jewish Identity"?

Research has not always acknowledged
the fluidity of Jewish identity.

By Debra Kaufman

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New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora

Exploring global Judaisms

and Jewish homelands.

By Caryn Aviv and David Shneer

Queen Esther

My Jewish Grandmother spoke Arabic.

By Vanessa Hidary

Culture is the Glue to Unite the Many Strands of Jewishness

Who is a Jew? The recent Supreme Court ruling has
highlighted the deep differences between the many
ways of answering that simple question.

By Felix Posen

Reflections on a Belated Apostasy

Even as a kid, Naomi Seidman knew that there

was a Jewish world beyond her Brooklyn shtetl.

By Naomi Seidman

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Lilith, Then Miriam

The "poster-girls" for Jewish feminists

have come a long way since the 1970s.

By Vanessa L. Ochs

Paul Malteis. The Song of Miriam, 18^th century.

Three Decades of Jewish Feminism

Susan Weidman Schneider, founder of

the magazine Lilith, discusses the many

ways women continue to change the world.

By Rebecca Phillips

Perceptions of the shtetl in Jewish life.

By Anna Shternshis

Modern Love

Stavans discusses modern,

secular concepts of Jewish love.

By Ilan Stavans with Veronica Albin

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