Rebecca Spence
Who are you calling a ‘dirty hippie’?
“We’re here to freak the straight culture out,” David Bronner says excitedly, dressed in hemp sneakers and a gold foam helmet emblazoned with a red heart.
Russian-Jewish author explores breaking rules to get by
When Boris Fishman began writing “A Replacement Life,” his award-nominated debut novel about a frustrated writer who forges Holocaust restitution claims for Soviet Jews in Brooklyn, he had no idea that the premise of his work-in-progress was playing out in real time.
Emma Goldman Papers Project in danger of being shut down
As the University of California, Berkeley celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, a long-simmering feud over funding for the Emma Goldman Papers — an archival project dedicated to the life and work of the iconic Jewish radical and free speech advocate — is coming to a head.
Where Jews of color go to ‘feel normal’ at summer camp
On a cool Sunday evening, Jewish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage one by one to perform poems they had composed on the theme of identity.
Documentary reveals Jewish mother’s ‘Little White Lie’
When Lacey Schwartz celebrated her bat mitzvah more than two decades ago in her hometown of Woodstock, N.Y., a synagogue-goer turned to her and said, “It’s so nice to have an Ethiopian Jew in our midst.”