Summary: “There is something peculiar about this book: the fact is the cover gives it away right from the start.” That was the first line of Walter Benjamin’s review of The Fairy Tale and the Present written by Alois Jalkotzy in...
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Published in: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Abstract In the tradition of hakawatis (Arab storytellers) and the maggid (Jewish storytellers), I intend to ignite social-justice dialogue, ecological consciousness, and collective action. How can we transform habitual behaviors of entitlement and…
Unveiling Progress as Parasite: We Must Replace “Renewable” Energies with Ecological Ethics • From The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking dePICTions volume 3 (2023): Critical Ecologies. Summary: My essay examines the insidious manifestations of greenwashing and environmental racism in the context of humanitarian imperialism—the…
Published in: Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters, Ed. Lucy Weir, Palgrave Macmiilan, 2023 Summary: “I think the big crisis of our times is that our minds have been manipulated to give power to…
Published in: Shifting Climate – Shifting People, Ed. Miguel De LaTorre, Pilgrim Press, 2022 Summary: Alhadeff’s chapter examines the insidious manifestations of greenwashing and environmental racism in the context of humanitarian imperialism—the ways in which our taken-for-granted standard of…
Published in: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, issue 41.3, The University of Nebraska Press, 2021 Summary: My color photography is a theater of psychological and physical transformations that reveal a luminescent excess. This excess combines both the civilized…
Published in: Tikkun, Journal of Radical Empathy, 2022 Summary: Each fall, I send out the following appeal to my communities: Dear friends, While buying Halloween candy this year please consider the links between many of the popular brands...
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Published in: Deep Green Resistance News Service, 2021 Summary: “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” —Audre Lorde As with our shift from our systemically racist culture to one rooted in mutual respect for multiplicity and difference, we must...
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Published in: Tikkun, Journal of Radical Empathy, 2022 Summary: In the framework of our current Shmita Year, “Sacred Attunement: Shmita as Cultural Biomimicry” explores the Hebrew concepts of selah (pause, including a practice of decolonizing our relationship to homogenizing…
“The Spectacle of the Invisible: Sephardic Jewish Identity in Multicultural Education” Explorations in Ethnic Studies Vo1.l 18, No. 1 (January 1995) : 109-124.