by Aron Wander, 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
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
by Willemina Davidson, 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
by Rabbi Arik Ascherman, for All That’s Left This Chanukah, All That’s Left, a Jerusalem-based, anti-Occupation collective, is publishing a series of eight essays —
a guest post by Talia Kaplan The nature of the miracle we celebrate on Hanukkah has long been a topic of discussion, perhaps as
These two texts challenge us to pay close attention to the power dynamics involved in a hegemonic body adopting cultural products of a subordinate group. Sometimes erasure comes through restricting the minority practice of its own culture, as in Antiochus’s later persecution, which we marked on Chanukah. But sometimes erasure comes through cultural appropriation, depending on a subordinate group to create culture, and then taking it and turning it from culture to artifact, from lifeline to epitaph.
Like many a Jewish Diaspora kid I grew up with a white and blue JNF pushka in my room. I even received a certificate for