Ben Ratskoff is a writer and doctoral student based in Los Angeles.
Ben Ratskoff
By Ben Ratskoff
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Opinion Why We Still Need Intersectionality
Intersectionality is fundamentally broken. It has failed Jews — not by accident, by design — and should be abandoned as a model for achieving equality. So argues Batya Ungar-Sargon in her recent opinion piece, “Intersectionality Has Abandoned Jews. Should Jews Abandon Intersectionality?” in The Forward. The latter point, I will concede. Those using intersectionality as…
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Community Introducing PROTOCOLS
We are living in a moment of uncanny crisis. Right-wing populism and reactionary fascism once again threaten to spread the malignant violence of the West — never neutralized, never contained, never eradicated. Old wars — wars of heteropatriarchy, of racial capitalism, of environmental degradation — persist and appear in new, dangerous forms. And Jews find…
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Community My Judaism Has Flourished Tremendously at UCLA
I commenced my doctoral study at UCLA after living in Jerusalem, where panic about Jewish life on American university campuses runs high. I had previously lived in France, where the anti-Jewish culture involves real violence not symbolic walls or protests on campus, so I was reasonably suspicious of the gravity of the alarm. Now in…
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