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Rebecca Spence

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.

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