Who are the Radicals of the Jewish World?

To be a Jewcy Radical you need two things: Vision and Balls. Vision to see the injustices in front of yourBALLS face, and Vision to foresee a world where those injustices have been vanquished. Balls to stand firm when the world inevitably demands its Pound of Flesh from you, as it does from anyone who overturns a deeply entrenched—but deeply wrong—status quo.

Hillel Los Angeles (they've got their Jewcy user profile here) has addVISIONed Yitzhak Rabin to the Jewcy Radical Wiki, and it’d sure be tough to argue against the idea that Rabin was the real thing, a true radical. He had both Vision and Balls in spades. So much so, in fact, that he would very likely have been on the list of the Jewcy 12—except that we wanted all Jewcy Radicals to be alive and fighting their fight today, whereas Rabin has already paid the supreme price for his radicalism.

BBALLS AND VISIONut Hillel’s Rabin nomination raises another question: who else out there in the Jewish world makes the grade as a true radical? Now, we made a conscious choice not to keep the Jewcy Radical list an all-Jewish affair—after all, Jewcy Jews are a part of the Jewish world, but not limited to it. And the Jewcy Radical list does have radicals who happen to be Jewish—Peter Singer, Zell Kravinksy, and William Upski Wimsatt—as well as our Tikkun Olam radical, Ruth Messinger, who is the one person on our list whose radicalism emerges from a specifically Jewish context. This is what Hillel wants to know: If we'd wanted to populate our list with 12 people like Rabin and Messinger, people whose radicalism was inextricably tied into their identity as Jews...could we have done it? Who would we have picked?

Damn good question. So that's the challenge to the floor: Other than Yitzhak Rabin and Ruth Messinger, who are the radicals of the Jewish World? People who've got the Vision and Balls of a Jewcy Radical; people who aren't just Jewish and radical—they're Jewishly radical.

Let's hear some names. Leave your comments below.