Confessions of a dissident Jew

I speak here, today, as a woman who is proud to define herself as a dissident Jew. Proud to be “dissident” because, with the rise of autocratic regimes across the globe, the crushing of political protest and freedoms, dissidence feels like the only place to be. Proud to be a “Jew” because there exists a tradition of Jewish history and thought which, over millennia, has made its appeal for equity and justice to be placed…