There is a folktale about a boy who has a vivid dream of finding treasure in a distant place. Deciding to follow the dream and
Jay Michaelson is a rare commodity: an expert seeker. His expertise is well documented in the work he has produced in several contiguous but certainly
Children’s books get a bad rap. Fairytale endings, good guys in white hats and bad guys in black, can’t we all just get along—as our
Here is Our Light, edited by Rabbi Miriam Jerris and Sheila Malcolm, is a collection of original liturgical pieces and short liturgical commentaries. Although Humanistic
It is in this sense that we can understand why JFREJ has chosen to call their pamphlet An Offering to Our Movement. The authors hope to provide both Jews and non-Jews on the left a means to theorize antisemitism that will allow them to confront it confidently in both speech and action, without worrying that they are running afoul of “good leftist” understandings of privilege and intersectionality, or falling into right-wing traps. I think they succeed in this necessary and admirable goal to a great degree, and therefore any criticisms I offer should be understood in reciprocal fashion, as an offering to their offering, for the strengthening of their efforts.
Israeli historian Benny Morris is on the promo circuit with an extended interview in Haaretz for a re-release of his 2009 book, One State, Two States: Resolving