Amy Kesselman
It’s hard to imagine my life without Melanie’s friendship. Since the 1970s when we lived together, we always found ways to see each other — for lunch in New York …
Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky
i don’t even know how to talk about melanie, and the place she’s had in my political and cultural life. i don’t have the kinds of stories that make for …
Alice Sturm Sutter
Melanie helped to organize a Women in Black Vigil in front of Zabar’s (Upper West Side) in around 1988 or 1990. At that time, Jewish people standing for Palestinian rights …
Gwyn Kirk
Dear Leslie, I’ve been thinking of you since Melanie died and want to send my condolences and wish you all strength as you grieve this deep loss. I don’t have …
Naomi Braine
I have many memories of Melanie — in countless Jews for Racial and Economic Justice meetings, in demonstrations of various kinds, and in coffee shops or small restaurants in various …
Jon Moscow
I met Melanie shortly after she became Jews for Racial an Economic Justice’s staff person. We were both speaking at Beth Am in Inwood; she on behalf of JFREJ and …
Nan Rubin
Just a note to add my name to the long roster of folks who loved and admired Melanie, and who was honored to have counted her as a friend. To …
Emily Schnee
Melanie and I worked together a couple of decades ago at what was then the Queens College Worker Education Extension Center. Melanie was my beloved colleague, mentor, role model, and …
Grace Coston
I met Melanie and Leslie in 2004 when I served as their interpreter at the Fête de l’Humanité. We stood in front of a crowd of thousands and thousands of …
Nadia Hijab
I will always remember Melanie for that event she, Naomi, also of JFREJ, and I put together for the 29th of November in the early 2000s on the International Day …