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      We Called For Better Responses to Campus Antisemitism—and the ADL Threatened to Withdraw Sponsorship
    • Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
      Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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      Women’s Liberation Front Attempts to Liberate Women’s Sports from Gender Equality
    • Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
      Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
    • Why Authoritarianism Needs Gender Stereotypes – and Democracy Needs Gender Justice
      Why Authoritarianism Needs Gender Stereotypes – and Democracy Needs Gender Justice
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    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
    • Why Authoritarianism Needs Gender Stereotypes – and Democracy Needs Gender Justice
      Why Authoritarianism Needs Gender Stereotypes – and Democracy Needs Gender Justice
    • Defense Secretary Hegseth’s New ‘Kafir’ Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy
      Defense Secretary Hegseth’s New ‘Kafir’ Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy
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    • We Called For Better Responses to Campus Antisemitism—and the ADL Threatened to Withdraw Sponsorship
      We Called For Better Responses to Campus Antisemitism—and the ADL Threatened to Withdraw Sponsorship
    • Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
      Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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Aryeh Cohen

Aryeh Cohen is Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the American Jewish University and Rabbi in Residence at Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. He is author most recently of Justice in the City.

Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Israel-Palestine, Politics/LawMarch 16, 2017

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.

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UncategorizedSeptember 4, 2013

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

By Aryeh Cohen

Time to take responsiblity—peacefully—for global well-being.

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(A)theologiesMarch 23, 2010

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

The first decade of the twenty-first century seems to have upended the Jewish world. What does it mean that conservatives, and some Orthodox, have begun to agitate for social justice, while progressives, traditionally secular, are “taking back the texts”?

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