Si Kahn

Oct 22, 2024 | progressive.org | Si Kahn

Go to any storytelling festival in Appalachia, sit on just the right porch in the evening as the sun lowers itself over the distant blue mountains, and you might could get just lucky enough to hear some stories about Jack. Jack is the stuff of mountain legends, a quick-witted boy who rises from humble beginnings to become a hero, defending his family and his community, even to the point of slaying giants. And he does it without any help from Peter Thiel.

Jun 10, 2024 | civilrights.org | Si Kahn |Russell Armstrong |Kanya Bennett |Kevin Cannady

Episode Transcript Kanya BennettWelcome to Pod for the Cause, the official podcast of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Leadership Conference Education Fund, where we take on the critical civil and human rights issues of our day. I’m your host, Kanya Bennett, coming to you from our nation’s capital, Washington, DC, where it is hot and humid, and officially summer this June. It is also a month of awareness for several civil rights causes and constituencies.

Feb 2, 2024 | convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Si Kahn |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack

Under the bright-as-day arc lights of the old Cleveland Cloth Plant, the swing shift is walking out, lighting up, heading home, the card room workers covered with cotton dust from Red Wing work boots to Durham Bulls baseball cap. The shift known variously in the South as midnight, cat eye, third, hoot owl, graveyard, night shift, is lined up single file just outside the double doors that lead to the mill, the line moving swiftly forward as they enter and punch in.

Jan 18, 2024 | forward.com | Si Kahn

To the editor:I truly love the Forward, which I first learned about from my father Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn z"l, who was in sequence Hillel director at Penn State University, national director of Hillel, international head of B'Nai B'rith, and director of Jewish studies at American University. The Forward is my idea of a family inheritance.