Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism by Eric K. Ward published in the Summer 2017 issue of Public Eye magazine. Over the past year, as antisemitic speech and acts grew in frequency and viciousness, I found myself in an uncomfortable position. As a committed Jew endeavoring to be an equally committed antiracist, I found myself struggling to hold both the reality of White privilege and the reality of antisemitism at the same time. I am fully and comp

I am really affected by scenes of violence. I can’t watch fictional depictions of violent acts. I get too upset. It stays with me for days and weeks, surfacing at inopportune times. And so, I naturally have tended to avoid watching viral videos of people being killed. I didn’t watch the Walter Scott video (the man who was shot while running away from officers back in April 2015). I chose my comfort when confronted with these digital witnesses. Always. In the past few days, t

Ta-Nehisi Coates rose to the nation’s attention when his book, Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. I selected that book for our reading discussion group in March of 2016, and then in April we read Coates’ Atlantic article, The Case for Reparations , published in 2014. I have found Coates to be a master of our shared language and an insightful commentator on race and history, so I read hungrily when, in the January/February issue of the

I started this trip with a few other travelers right after the Uprising in Baltimore. Here are the books and articles we've read together between then and now: 1. Irving, Debby, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race . 2. Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 3. Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the World and Me , 4. Coates, Ta-Nehisi, " The Case for Reparations " in The Atlantic 5. Cracking the Codes: The Syste

I wanted to start B'more Incremental here, because it helps you understand why I am working for incremental change in the first place. This post was originally written as a part of my participation in the Institute for Islamic Christian and Jewish Studies ' I magining Justice in Baltimore project. It was originally published on ICJS's blog on the Huffington Post. Dear God, I have been asked to write an essay about how religion fits into imagining justice in Baltimore. I’v