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Being Allies

Barbara PenznerOctober 29, 2018

“Am I my brother’s keeper?” is the first question a human asks in the Torah. Adam and Eve’s oldest son, Cain, offers it as a rhetorical response to God’s query about the fate of Cain’s brother Abel (who lies dead at Cain’s own hand).

Different Modes of Ally-ship

Jonathan Greenblatt and Yavilah McCoyOctober 29, 2018

I asked Yavilah McCoy, a diversity activist, and Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the ADL, to engage with each other through a series of letters about the parameters and boundaries of ally-ship — and the roles that power and privilege play in building coalitions to fight injustice.—S.B.