An interview with Philadelphia based student rabbi Ariana Katz, creator of Kaddish podcast, a show about death, mourning, and the people who do it.
“I’m going to yoga, and I don’t think I’ll see you until shul tonight…” It was 6:00am and I was saying goodbye to Suzie for
Just as every year the haggadah tells us we must see ourselves as if we personally left Egypt and were personally redeemed from oppression, so every year we must push ourselves out of our comfort zones and try to embrace new and “strange” habits of mind and thoughts. We cannot rely on what was once difficult and brave for us but is now part of our regular internal conversation or behavior.
What is escalation, if not the recognition of life-threatening crisis and the seeking of means to confront it? When we don’t escalate, we recognize the inverse: our White, Jewish lives don’t depend on confronting Trump’s murderous racism.
How many times have we been told that the Jacobs of this world must have their rights at the expense of the Esaus? #BlackLivesMatter meets Parshat Toledot.
You are not counter-hegemonic movements. You are the incarnation, par excellence, of hegemony. You have, in the most racist of ways, co-opted the language of a real counter-hegemonic movement entrenched in battle with the American state.
A contemporary lament poem (kinnah), in the style of Eli Tsiyon, for the plague of American racism, by Ruby K and Aryeh Bernstein.
A brief passage in this week’s Torah portion, while enumerating a census, adds a side note: “But Korach’s children did not die” — ” וּבְנֵי קֹרַח
This piece identifies core issues in white Jews’ interaction with whiteness and white privilege and suggests ways toward solidarity with people of color.
I hope that when we remember Freddie Gray it will not be because he was another Black man killed senselessly—call on Gov. to increase police accountability.
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