(The spirit and action and unending pursuit of social justice was one of the aspects of Reform Judaism that originally beckoned me through my temple's door. It seemed that many of the activists whose ר֫וּחַ I was inspired by were, in some way shape or form, Jewish: Emma Goldman, Allan Ginsberg, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, Lisa Edelstein, Elizabeth Taylor, Kate Bornstein, Bella Abzug, Leslie Feinberg, Judith Plaskow, Barbara Streisand... Now you may argue that correlation does not equal causation and for some of the aforementioned, their Jewishness was in fact antithetical to their activism. And I would respond, yep, you are absolutely correct. Still, I believe there are no coincidences....only, perhaps, a dearth of critical analysis.
Here is one more individual who I would add to the list :)
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