So Long, Farewell, Au Revoir—to Melissa
It's hard to say how Judaism fits into identity politics. As both an ethnicity and religion, comprising (in North America) mostly white-skinned people who may not look obviously Jewish, how can our community fairly compare antisemitism to racism of other kinds? Is such a comparison even needed? Do white-skinned Jews have white privilege? These are not comfortable questions, but longstanding Jewish involvement in social-justice causes makes them inevitable.
It's a topic David Bernstein, the founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, has thought a lot about. He has written about the…
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