The SNL joke was a good one. I didn’t find it that funny, but it turns out to have been an excellent joke. Here’s the deal – a joke’s purpose is not to inform you of information. The set-up was that about half of Israel’s population has been vaccinated, while the punchline...
In the last few weeks, among many other depressing stories, the Netanyahu regime has arrested and/or tried multiple non-violent Palestinian activists, the IDF trampled Palestinian lands and buildings near Hebron during exercises despite promising not to do so, the Jewish National Fund has made official its previous backdoor support for West Bank...
The entire Republican party (minus 11) has voted against any consequences for Greene, who refused to apologize for her insane conspiracy theories (that feed death threats against parents who lost children in Sandy Hook), calls for violence and execution against her colleagues, calls for sedition in regards to the “Election Fraud” coup,...
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So toxic that PJ library is partnering to Tu Bishvat with the National Forest Foundation rather than JNF. From a press release: J Library celebrates Jewish Earth Day with Plant for Tomorrow Stewardship for the earth and a deep love and respect for trees go back to the earliest days of Jewish...
The following statement was released by the Society for Jewish Ethics on January 13, 2020 By seeking to subvert the results of a free and fair election, by repeatedly lying to his supporters concerning that election, and by inciting an insurrection, Donald Trump has betrayed his oath of office and is clearly...
[This is the second of a series of posts on nonviolence in Exodus. The first one, by Aron Wander, is here.] This article is an adaptation of a drash given to the Shtibl community over Zoom on January 9, 2021. With the book of Exodus, a new hero bursts onto the narrative...
guestpost by Aron Wander Everyday forms of resistance make no headlines. – James Scott, Weapons of the Weak This past August, an exhibit titled “Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust” opened at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London. The Senior Curator, Barbara Warnock, explained: Sometimes the view that people have is that the...
What to do with Hanukah? (Spoiler alert—its actually about Diaspora.) Hanukah lives in the sweet spot where there is one story which claims that it is “historically true” and yet there is very little contemporary evidence to back this up—the earliest account being written generations after the events—and there is another story,...
Scroll through the hundreds of cartoons that Jason Adam Katzenstein has drawn and posted on his popular Instagram account and you’ll quickly notice a theme. There’s an executioner lying in bed, trying to remember if he locked his dungeon. A happy-looking chess piece on Zoloft. A fire hydrant worrying that everyone hates...