Identity & Ideas

Identity  |   Ideas
Highlights...

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"?

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Research has not always acknowledged
the fluidity of Jewish identity.

By Debra Kaufman

Identity

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Exploring global Judaisms
and Jewish homelands. 
 
By Caryn Aviv and David Shneer

Queen Esther
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My Jewish Grandmother spoke Arabic. 
 
By Vanessa Hidary

Culture is the Glue to Unite the Many Strands of Jewishness 

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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
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Even as a kid, Naomi Seidman knew that there
was a Jewish world beyond her Brooklyn shtetl.
 
By Naomi Seidman


Ideas


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  The "poster-girls" for Jewish feminists
  have come a long way since the 1970s.
 
  By Vanessa L. Ochs
 
Paul Malteis. The Song of Miriam, 18th century.

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Susan Weidman Schneider, founder of
the magazine Lilith, discusses the many
ways women continue to change the world.
 
By Rebecca Phillips

Gefilte Fish or White Piano?
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Perceptions of the shtetl in Jewish life.

By Anna Shternshis

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Stavans discusses modern,
secular concepts of Jewish love. 
 
By Ilan Stavans with Veronica Albin