Sharon Ann Musher

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Mar 13, 2022, 5:35 PM

The first bat mitzvah: No thunder sounded. Or did it?

Consider the courage it took 100 years ago for Mordecai Kaplan's daughter to leave the comfort of the women’s section and chant the Torah blessings

Jun 10, 2015, 11:42 PM

The misguided ‘Stand With Israel Act’

Legislation penalizing all forms of boycott against Israel is morally shaky and will ultimately boomerang

Jan 17, 2014, 6:15 AM

Why I left the American Studies Association

Since the American Studies Association voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions, I have listened to arguments by ASA members who also opposed the boycott that we should not leave the association but should try to overturn the boycott from...

Dec 19, 2013, 1:58 PM

A host of problems with the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israel

Peter Beinart recently argued that the “The Real Problem with the American Studies Association’s Boycott of Israel” is neither its singling out of Israel nor the threat it poses to academic freedom, but its efforts to deny the legitimacy of a democratic...

Dec 17, 2013, 4:35 PM

The ASA’s assault on academic freedom

The vote to boycott Israeli universities indicates little more than the Association's moral decline

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About Me

Sharon Ann Musher is Associate Professor of History at Stockton University and author of *Democratic Art: The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture* (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Her forthcoming book, *Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan, Zionism, and the Making of American Jewish Women*, uses her grandmother’s archive to explore the coming of age of American Jewish women in the early twentieth century.