Thoughts about internal and external criticisms of the Jewish immigrant justice movement in this moment.
Purim is as much a story of collective survival as it is of heroic deeds and last-minute inversions. A tale for our times, it is the story of how vulnerable people find sanctuary, spitting in the eye of their oppressors with the rowdy fact of their rebel endurance.
Instead of retreating from the needy among us in fear, Purim mandates that we instead stretch out our hands and create connection.
This piece was originally posted by the American Jewish Peace Archive. Photo is of Grace Gleason, Moran Zamir and Aliza Becker on May 30, 2017
As we light the Channukah candles this year, may we celebrate our own liberation and reflect on how we wield our power as Jews.
Those of us connected to the heritage of Avraham must engage in this difficult work of imbuing the words of our tradition with meanings that honor the values embodied by our ancestors in this week’s parasha of radical respect and generosity.
This piece originally appeared on the American Jewish Peace Archive list serve. While there were a significant number of progressive North American Jews who moved
Since we have just celebrated the turning of the Jewish year, it seems perhaps a touch early to suggest that there are two books which
(The below is a slight adaptation of my sermon for Yom Kippur morning; it argues that concerns of economic and social inequality are perhaps more
Should we be surprised that the refuge-state of the Jewish people would welcome a man forced out of his administration position for his associations with Hungarian Nazis, but not come to the aid of American Jews during an unprecedented surge in antisemitism?
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