If our ritual life does not pulse with the passionate pull of the political, if our laments do not answer and reprise the cries of
On Friday, August 23rd, a new documentary about the making and impact of Fiddler on the Roof hits cinemas. On the same day, a new
by Jacob Abolafia A picture hung (and perhaps still hangs) in the library of the Conservative synagogue where I spent my first conscious years attending
Thoughts about internal and external criticisms of the Jewish immigrant justice movement in this moment.
This was never about undocumented immigration. It was always about racist policy…but this is a new low.
Pictures by Gili Getz; text by Salem Pearce On Sunday, more than 1,000 Jews in New York converged on Amazon’s bookstore in Midtown Manhattan to
Two phenomena in Jewish public discourse that bother me feel especially acute around and in advance of Tisha B’Av. The first is the use of
I think the idea that we have to either accept or reject traditions, texts, works of art because they are tainted by cultural forces or even individuals who offend us is premised on a false dichotomy. I’ll go further. I think this kind of thinking has more in common with religious fundamentalism than it does with a more humanistic approach that is a little more complicated, but ultimately much more rewarding.
My elderly friend Rose Daitsman died last week. An inveterate organizer, she once told me about a campaign she led against class inequality in the
If you were paying attention to this week’s Torah reading of Mattot-Massei, you were presumably horrified by the description of the genocide and sex slavery
