Martin Levine

Marty Levine February 17, 2025 It will be 60 years ago this coming Sunday when about 25,000 Americans took to the streets to add their voices and bodies to...

Marty Levine February 5, 2025 It’s taken less than a month and I am again fixating on George Orwell’s warning that is  his novel “1984” Who controls the past...

NY Times Marty Levine January 31, 2025 In the second week of the second Trump Presidency, we can see clearly how he and his acolytes envision the nation.  As...

Marty Levine January 23, 2025 [1]My father was a wandering Aramean[i] My mother was a wandering Byelorussian I began my comments at a recent Chicago City Council meeting with...

Marty Levine January 13, 2025 In the American Jewish Community, it has always been difficult to speak in favor of the rights of the Palestinian people and in opposition...

Marty Levine January 2, 2025 “Here on our television, night after night, our people are being shown the symbols of this war and it is a holocaust. A little...

Marty Levine February 5, 2025 It’s taken less than a month and I am again fixating on George Orwell’s warning that is  his novel “1984” Who controls the past...

Marty Levine December 30, 2024 I recently talked to a college student about a paper she was writing.  The topic was about older “leaders” in social justice organizations and...

  Marty Levine December 18, 2024  The Chronicles of Philanthropy has published its list of ten biggest philanthropic gifts of 2024. This is one end-of-year list I look forward...

Marty Levine December 11, 2024 When I was in Poland, I visited the villages that no longer had Jewish communities and the sites of the death camps. I asked...