Elise Goldin
By Elise Goldin
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Opinion Fighting Jewish Slumlords Isn’t Anti-Semitic
Menachem Stark’s death and the media’s inflammatory response to it highlight a particular kind of anti-Semitism: the kind that can emerge as a result of the religious Jewish community’s involvement in real estate and the horrible living conditions in many of those buildings. As a tenant organizer at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, I work…
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News Orthodox Slumlords and Their Tenants
I am a Jewish tenant organizer. This is not so unusual. Jews have been organizing ourselves and others since we left the Old World for New York City’s slums. We created labor unions when we lived in tenements on the Lower East Side, and we continue to organize today, often in partnership with other communities,…
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