Sublime

“Joe the Jew.”

The Ellis Island legend is simply the final step in this multigenerational process of denying, hiding, and burying the reality that American Jews feared most—namely, the possibility that they were not welcome

you could do what Jenny did, which was fight. You could fight against the whole diaphanous premise that they based their greed and clannishness upon: that whatever they had to do for money was justified because once, a long, long time ago, Jews trusting the world and playing by the rules didn’t go so well. But this didn’t stand up to Jenny’s questi

Stacey Milbern is a disability justice thought leader with twelve years of experience incubating leadership programs, managing services programs, and providing technical assistance to organizations wanting to increase their capacity around disability and diversity. She is a queer, mixed race, disabled woman of color and is passionate about advancin

Choosing to be a Jew means that you become vulnerable to a form of bigotry to which you were previously immune; in the process, you may become even more sensitive to all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and more motivated to pursue justice—tzedek—for everyone.