Every noxious ideological fad the larger American Jewish community faced seemed to originate in the politically charged San Francisco Bay Area, and the staff at Jewish organizations there often had more experience in addressing them than the rest of the country, so we organized a webinar for the Jewish advocacy community called “Grappling with Intersectionality.” While I didn’t say so explicitly, I came to believe that the mainstream Jewish community needed to find a way to include the Jewish narrative in the intersectional matrix—to complicate it—so that Jews and Israel were not viewed as the
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