What the writer must value-the small life, the daily life, the significance of the individual consciousness and experience-are exactly what war viola… - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Why have so many radicals been impermeable to a pro-Jewish analysis and activity? Why are we getting the message that many of our erstwhile political comrades and sisters-including Jews-think it contradictory to be a radical Jew?

Particularly for those of us who are not religiously observant, much confusion attends our grasping - through anti-Semitism and often prodded by anti-Semitism - for something beyond common danger. We need to figure out how to undo assimilation without being nostalgic or xenophobic: how to reach in and out at the same time.

What I think we must keep poised in response to our knowledge that communism as practiced has failed; so has capitalism.