(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
tikkun.org
For more on Jewish renewal and politics:
Jewish Renewal by Lerner
Wrestling with Zion by Kushner and Solomon has a number of articles on the Jewish right's attacks on Jews critical of Israel.
Vicci Alcoset
More on Class:
Queerly Classed , ed by Susan Raffa, Mir Zayen Do!/We Are Here! by Tova
Rabbi Chaim Beliak
Co-Director - Stop Moskowitz Campaign
Stop Moskowitz
In Los Angeles, Moskowitz operates a bingo hall and owns a casino. In Jerusalem, he uses profits from those operations to thwart Israeli-Palestinian peace by buying strategically placed Palestinian real estate for Jewish settlers and supporting militant anti-peace organizations. This organization is trying to stop it.
More on the Rosenbergs
An Execution in the Family by Robert Meeropol
Heir to An Execution
Leena Broderson
Hebrew School Teacher
LINKS: PEACE & JUSTICE IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL
with an emphasis on Jewish Organizations
Alternative Information Center
Israeli/Palestinian News Service with great links and news updates
Jews Against the Occupation
NYC based group working in solidarity with Palestinians. Supports Palestinian Right to Return.
The Jewish Peace Fellowship
Founded in 1941 to defend the rights of C0s, has continuously fought for peace and justice.
Rabbis for Human Rights
Israel and North America
Jewish Peace News
Service provided by A Jewish Voice for Peace, a San Francisco Bay Area grassroots organization dedicated to the human, civil and economic rights of Jews, Palestinians, and all peoples in the Middle East; has an excellent list serve with daily articles.
Shira Hassan
Social Worker
Julia Caplan
Co-Founder -
A Jewish Voice for Peace
More on Assimilation:
Fighting to Become American , by Riv-Ellen Prell
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:
Queer Spawn and COLAGE
Harmony Goldberg
Educator, SOUL (School of Unity and Liberation)
Jewish Resistance and Victimization:
Uprising , Directed by Jon Avnet
Catastrophe to Power by Idith Zertal
The Avengers by Rich Cohen
Julie Iny
Community Organizer
More on Arab Jews Struggle Against European Colonialism:
Albert Memmi
Ella Shohat
Forget Baghdad
Loolwa Khazoom
For more on Jewish multiculturalism:
Loolwa's booK: The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage
Loolwa's website
Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin and Other Myths of Identity. by Katya Gibel Azoulay
Paul Kivel
Violence Prevention Educator
http://www.paulkivel.com
More on Jewish Masculinity:
Unheroic Conduct by Daniel Boyarin
"Some New Jewish Stereotypes" by Philip Roth, Guilt & Pleasure #2
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:
Birthright Unplugged
Yalla Yalla Zine , if sold out, contact baglady(at)riseup.net
Palestine Solidarity and Birthright
More on Loud, Jewish Women:
How Jews Became White Folk , by Elaine Brodkin, Ch 4 Not Quite White, Gender and Jewish Identity
Andalusia's Current Projects
Free Ride Recycled Bike Coop
Rustbelt Radio
Prison Poster Project
Josina Manu Maltzman
Feygelech for a Free Palestine, Contributing Writer for
That's Revolting!
Resources for Reclaiming Jewishness Through Food
Matzoh Ball Gumbo , Marcie Cohen Ferris
The Book of Jewish Food , Claudia Roden
Rachel Marcus
Student - Oberlin College, grew up going to
Kinderland , a Jewish socialist summer camp
Steve Quester
Early-childhood Educator and Queer Jewish Activist
More Info on LGBTQ and anti-occupation analysis:
Black Laundry
Jna Shelomith
Revolutionary
Liz Werner
Writer / Translator / Teacher, grandparents blacklisted in McCarthy era
Young, Jewish, and Left was created by Michael Konnie Chameides and Irit Reinheimer
Michael Konnie Chameides 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 directed an office for consumer and environmental rights group US Public Interest Research Group and worked on successfuly electoral campaigns in Hudson, NY. 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. Visit his portfolio website.
Irit Reinheimer 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.