Radio Curious visits with Penny Rosenwasser, author of âHope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears,â a book that explores internalized oppression and describes steps to embrace who we are as a means to create a world based on love, tolerance and justice.
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When Penny Rosenwasser, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, was a child in the suburbs of Virginia, people sometimes said, âYou don't look Jewish.â  She replied âThank you.âÂ
Her book âHope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears,â delves into the Jewish experience and its rich yet tragic cultural history. She explores internalized oppression and ways to face fear with a positive outcome, and describes steps to embrace who we are as a means to create a world based on love, tolerance and justice.
I spoke with Penny Rosenwasser from her home near San Francisco, California on May 5th, 2014. She began our conversation by describing a major theme of her book.
Penny Rosenwasserâs website is: pennyrosenwasser.com.
The book she recommends is: âThe Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism,â by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz.
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