On Sunday, April 7, the Marquette University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) planted 41,000 flags on campus in recognition of the ongoing
by Rabbi Lara Haft Yom Tov This piece is part of a השתא הכא/Hashata Hakha, a justice-oriented Haggadah reader with contributions from members of Halachic
People sometimes point to the ending of the book of Esther as a Jewish massacre—the disturbing part of the story that is supposedly suppressed in
The Jewish studies scholar-turned-filmmaker discusses her award-winning first film, ALRIGHT ROBOT , what writing for film has in common with academic writing, and why she
by Maya Rosen, for All That’s Left This Chanukah, All That’s Left, a Jerusalem-based, anti-Occupation collective, is publishing a series of eight essays — one
People sometimes say that Hannukah celebrates the fight against “assimilation,” or against “Hellenism.” When you read 1 Maccabees, you get a somewhat different picture. Certainly,
In part inspired by the polemics that surround Hannukah, this year, for the first time since childhood, I reread the two books of Maccabees. I
Quite a few religious Jews seem to be confident, for reasons I cannot wholly understand, that the wicked societies of S’dom and Amorah, which mistreat
This piece was also published on Approaching. Rav Jeff Fox’s major contribution to the world of Torah in this form of his teshuva “Nashim Mesolelot”