I recently participated in an online panel that accompanied the screening of the film documentary, Yiddish: the Mama Loshn, for the Boulder Jewish Film Festival. I was not invited to the panel as a Yiddishist or professor of Yiddish or Jewish history (the three other panel members were). Instead, director Pierre Sauvage asked me to […]
Independent Jewish Voices Webinar on Clash Between Judaism and Zionism
A few weeks ago I wrote an essay on a subject that has bothered me for years: how can I as a Jew have anything in common with other Jews who espouse radical hate and mass violence in the name of the Jewish God and Jewish people? The essay, Conflating Judaism and Zionism: Bad for […]
At MAGA Rally, Israeli Flag and Neo-Nazis Co-Exist…Awkwardly
If you’re Jewish (and even if you’re not) you may be wondering what the hell was going on with yesterday’s MAGA rally and Lootapalooza at the Capitol. And I’m not talking about the overall madness of hundreds of white Supremacists, neo-Nazis and Trump Kool Aid drinkers, who stormed the Capitol and made American democracy look […]
Avrum Burg Says “No” to Israeli Judeo-Supremacy
It’s no secret that in the past four years under Pres. Trump white supremacy has been in the ascendancy. While in the past, Americans could argue that this racist ideology existed only on the bare margins of society, Trump has proven, in the words of the old radio serial, “what evil lurks in the hearts […]
