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(Place your mouse over the pictures to see more about the people featured in Young, Jewish, and Left. When available, there are links to additional information on the subjects they discuss. If you click on the image you will get a bigger image.)
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Author / National Chair - The Tikkun Community For more on Jewish renewal and politics:
Wrestling with Zion by Kushner and Solomon has a number of articles on the Jewish right's attacks on Jews critical of Israel.
Jenine Bressner
Artist
Deb Shoval
Playwright, Director of An Olive on the Seder Plate Other Resources for dialogue on Israel/Palestine:
Vicci Alcoset
More on Class:
Micah Bazant
Co-Author - Love & Justice Haggadah Get the Haggadah and Tim Tum - A Trans Jew Zine More on Jewish Feminism:
Trembling Before G-d World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews
Rabbi Chaim Beliak
Co-Director - Stop Moskowitz Campaign Stop Moskowitz
More on the Rosenbergs
Leena Broderson
Hebrew School Teacher LINKS: PEACE & JUSTICE IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL with an emphasis on Jewish Organizations
Alternative Information Center
Jews Against the Occupation
The Jewish Peace Fellowship
Rabbis for Human Rights
Jewish Peace News
Shira Hassan
Social Worker
Julia Caplan
Co-Founder - A Jewish Voice for Peace More on Assimilation:
Yonah Diamond
Union Organizer
Nava EtShalom
Writer and Activist Nava graduated from Oberlin in 2004 and has been living in her hometown of Philly since then, working on Palestine solidarity organizing, radio documentaries about grown kids of queers, and poetry. More Info about the Children of Lesbians and Gays at: Harmony Goldberg
Jewish Resistance and Victimization:
Miriam Grant
Former Participant and Staff - Jewish Youth for Community Action
Julie Iny
Community Organizer More on Arab Jews Struggle Against European Colonialism:
Loolwa Khazoom
For more on Jewish multiculturalism:
Paul Kivel
Violence Prevention Educator More on Jewish Masculinity:
And A. Lusia
Andalusia is a Pittsburgh based bicycle tinkerer, radical radio producer, printmaker, popcorn eater, dilapidated city explorer, deejay and zine creator. More Info on Birthright Israel and visiting Israel/Palestine:
More on Loud, Jewish Women:
Andalusia's Current Projects
Josina Manu Maltzman
Feygelech for a Free Palestine, Contributing Writer for That's Revolting! Resources for Reclaiming Jewishness Through Food
Rachel Marcus
Student - Oberlin College, grew up going to Kinderland , a Jewish socialist summer camp Emily Nepon
Co-creator of Suck My Treyf Gender, Bar Mitzvah-boy drag performer Current Projects:
Steve Quester
Early-childhood Educator and Queer Jewish Activist More Info on LGBTQ and anti-occupation analysis:
Penny Rossenwasser
Board Member - Jewish Voice for Peace More Resources on antisemitism:
Reframing Anti-Semitism
Jna Shelomith
Revolutionary
Dara Silverman
Director JFREJ - Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Director of Shalom Center , Author
Liz Werner
Writer / Translator / Teacher, grandparents blacklisted in McCarthy era
Young, Jewish, and Left was created by Konnie Michael Chameides and Irit Reinheimer
Konnie is a southern Jew transplanted as a Yankee. Before working on Young, Jewish, and Left he worked on a range of political projects. At Bard College, where he majored in Gender Studies and Philosophy, he led successful campaigns to pass one of the most comprehensive fair labor codes in the country as well as securing the right to vote for college students in Dutchess County, NY. He has given workshops and trainings on anti-sexist and anti-racist issues to activist, student, and non profit organizations. He is a co-author of “Stick It to the Manarchy” and a contributor to Yalla Yalla. The film series he curates in Hudson, NY has been recognized as the "Best Political Film Series" in the Albany Region by Metroland, the alternative weekly paper. More at standarddeviations.info . Irit is a visual artist and activist. She graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a BFA in Sculpture. Reinheimer assisted Amy Trompetter in building over 40 life-size puppets for the production of “The Barber of Seville,” and later performed in the production at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. She co-created Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be. . . a coloring book, published by Soft Skull Press in 2004. She began learning video when teaching youth stop-motion animation and mini-movies at Children’s Media Project in Poughkeepsie, NY. She lives in Philadelphia and has been active in labor, feminist, anti-war, and queer movements for the past 10 years. |