Rabbi Jeremy Rosen warns of the dangers posed by Yitzchak Ginsburgh who, according to Rosen, “has done untold damage to traditional Judaism and Israel’s case abroad.”
Politics & Society
Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist Alliance Imperils American Jewry
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Jim Sleeper warns of the danger American Jews will face “if their support for Israel remains as compromised as that of Zionist deal-makers, both Christian and Jewish.”
Jewish Wisdom
A New Lamentation for Tisha b’Av
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Aryeh Cohen laments our silence and lack of transformation, asking, “And where are we, the messengers of righteousness? / A soft murmuring sound rather than the blast of a trumpet.”
Jewish Wisdom
Blessing and Prayer for the Protection of Immigrants and Refugees
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Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub and Cat Zavis offer these prayers for immigrants and refugees, reminding us not only of the mitzvah to care for the stranger, but also the commandment to act.
Jewish Wisdom
Seeking the Feminine Divine
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Shelly Fredman imagines the feminine face of God in order to challenge “the decidedly male bent of our tradition.”
Israel/Palestine
Can Zionism Be Redeemed?
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Yehezkel Landau argues that “Jews, as human beings, deserve both security and spiritual liberation. So do Palestinians.”
Jewish Wisdom
Why Peter Schäfer’s Resignation as Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin Matters
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Shaul Magid warns of the dangers of “policing boundaries whereby distinctions between anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism, between Jews and Israel, are erased.”
Jewish Wisdom
B’midbar: On the Narrow Bridge
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Reflecting on the book of B’midbar, Rabbi Diane Elliot asks us to consider “[w]hat helps us through—who or what helps you through—the wilderness, the wildness, of life?”
Unbinding the Particular
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Reviewing James A. Diamond’s Jewish Theology Unbound, Aaron Hughes writes that the goal of the book is to recover “a—not the—philosophical theology that emerges from Jewish sources.”
Jewish Wisdom
The Holocaust, the slaying of Jews in the U.S. and the Rise of White Nationalist Extremists
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rabbi Michael Lerner presents a strategy for preventing future instances of hatred, violence, and anti-Semitism.
Jewish Wisdom
A Response to Richard Curtis
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In his response to Richard Curtis’s “The Case for Post-Theistic Judaism,” Vincent Calabrese contends that the contemporary Jewish community must take theology more seriously.
Global Capitalism
Worker strikes as liberation — way back then, and today
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Drawing parallels between the Exodus story and current political struggles, Jonathan Rosenblum honors striking workers who are standing up to modern-day Pharaohs.
Jewish Wisdom
The Politics of Miracle
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In his reading and translation of Rabbi Ya’akov Moshe Charlap, Shaul Magid aruges that the true miracle of the exodus from Egypt is the possibility of revolution.
Jewish Wisdom
Book Review: A Jewdas Haggadah
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Ren Finkel reviews the Jewdas Haggadah, a radical, satirical take on the traditional Haggadah that “reminds us to find space to laugh and sing and play while ‘being Jewish in a time just before the revolution.'”