things are in motion. Grace Paley has said, when people stand up, other people discover they've got legs. While there are limits to this kind of anal… - 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?

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

By speaking about anti-Semitism, Jewish women unsettle an unspoken equation in the radical women's movement: in a society like ours, deeply racist and absurdly pretending to classlessness, class comes to be seen as identical to race. People of color are considered the same as working and poor people.