
Ben Ratskoff is a writer and doctoral student based in Los Angeles.
Ben Ratskoff is a writer and doctoral student based in Los Angeles.
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…
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…
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…
דער פֿאַרגעסענער העלד אין דער גאַנצער געשיכטע איז דער בראָנקסער אַדוואָקאַט וואָס האָט אײַנגעזען די ווערט פֿון די טויזנטער באַשטויבטע פּאַפּירן .