Hosts and Contributors

Hosts

MARILYN KLEINBERG NEIMARK was a founder and longtime board member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and has been active in the Palestine/Israel peace movement since her involvement with the International Jewish Peace Union in the 1980s. She is the author of The Hidden Dimensions of Annual Reports: Sixty Years of Social Conflict at General Motors (Markus Wiener) and of numerous articles on higher education, business ethics, and critical accounting. She is a Professor Emerita at Baruch College-The City University of New York and was the co-host of Econonews on WBAI during the early 1990s.

ESTHER KAPLAN is investigative editor at the Nation Institute and produces the Communiqué, a weekly program on WNYE radio that covers labor issues. She is the author of With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right (New Press) and has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, American Prospect, Poz, and other publications. She is a former director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and has been active in the AIDS, reproductive rights, antiwar, labor, and Israel/Palestine peace movements.

Contributors

Marissa Brostoff is a doctoral student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has covered American Jewish culture and politics as a reporter at Tablet Magazine and at the Forward newspaper.

K. E. FELDMAN works as a producer on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show and also as a research assistant for a PBS documentary film. Her writing has appeared online in n+1 and The Huffington Post. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at http://feldman.tumblr.com/.
 

HENRY FONER retired in 1988 as president of the Fur, Leather & Machine Workers' Union, a position he held for 27 years. Since then, he has taught classes in labor history at the Harry Van Arsdale School of Labor Studies, the City College Center for Worker Education, and the Brooklyn College Institute for Retirees Pursuing Education. He is president of the Paul Robeson Foundation, president of the Congress of Senior Citizens, a member of the editorial board of Jewish Currents magazine, and co-historian of the web site laborarts.org.

MELANIE KAYE/KANTROWITZ is author of several books including The Color of Jews and The Issue Is Power. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, and has taught writing, literature, women's studies and Jewish studies all over the United States. A long time activist, she was the first director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and was a co-founder of Beyond the Pale.

ALAN LEVINE is a long-time civil rights lawyer who currently serves as special counsel to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

JOSH NATHAN-KAZIS is the politics editor of The Faster Times. He was the editor of New Voices magazine from 2007-2009, and is a regular contributor to WBAI’s Beyond the Pale. He has written on Israel/Palestine and the decline of the American fraternal order, among other issues.

Jenny Romaine is a puppeteer, performer and director who is a founding member of the Great Small Works collective.  She was music director of Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok for many years and is now the Maestra of an intergenerational mob of Yiddish spectacle performers who seek to keep politically engaged theater at the heart of social life.  Romaine was a sound archivist at the YIVO institute for Jewish Research for 13 years. She is part of the ice cream social crew for Milk not Jails.  For more info check www.greatsmallworks.org, www.circusamok.org, milknotjails.wordpress.com

NAN RUBIN has been a community radio producer and activist for more than 20 years. She built two community radio stations (WAIF in Cincinnati and KUVO in Denver) and is a founding member of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. Her national radio productions include Living Voices, profiles of Native Americans produced for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and the popular series The Hidden Jews of New Mexico.

ALISA SOLOMON is a journalist, theater critic/scholar, and director of the Arts and Culture major in the MA program at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She has written for The Village Voice, The Nation, Forward, New York Times , nextbook.com, and other publications. She is the co-editor with Tony Kushner of Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish Responses to the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (Grove) and the author of Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender (Routledge).

ABE VÉLEZ is a music and media sort. He was born and raised in Greenwich Village, USA. He is the bandleader and co-founder of  "Latin-Jewish urban music collective" Hip Hop Hoodíos. His film soundtrack credits include A Jihad for Love and Ball Don't Lie. Abe has also held numerous music and film industry posts at Barnes & Noble.com, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and Palm Pictures.