New Jewish Agenda

BLOG PRESS

• Pursue: Action for Just World Blog, a project of American Jewish World Service and Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps
• West Philly Local
• Mondoweiss.net 

RADIO INTERVIEWS

• Radio Interview with Aaron Lakoff  of Station CKUT in Montreal and The Media Coop
• Radio613 in Kingston, ON

and more coming soon…

Dan Berger, historian, organizer, and author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity and The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism:

We know about the Jewish anarchists, communists, and socialists of the early 20th century. We know, too, that Jews were disproportionately involved in the civil rights and New Left movements of the mid-20th century. What about all the Jewish rabble rousers in the late 20th century? Justice, Justice is a fascinating hidden history of Jewish activism in Reagan’s America. Ezra Berkley Nepon gives us the inside scoop of New Jewish Agenda, both a clearinghouse for Jewish involvement in a range of progressive causes of the 1980s and a bulwark against the din of conservative voices in Jewish communities. Nepon’s careful, critical work is a gift to those who pursue justice in the 21st century. Continue reading →