violence
A Messiah We Do Not Want to Come
These Sages help remind us to look at the chaos around us, to really see it, to analyze, it and begin to respond to it.
Drag Torah about Dinah: Vayishlach
Did you know Jacob had a daughter along with all of his 12 sons? Her name was Dinah. Does Dinah get treated like a character in her own right? Has anyone studied the fact that there’s this uncharacteristic story thrown…
Israel/Palestine, Blood Screaming from the Earth
To contextualize violence does not mean to rationalize it. The violence in Israel/Palestine has a context: the occupation and creeping annexation.
A Heavy Weight
Violence, pain and occupation become the dimly lit hospital in which generations are born and the cemetery in which they are buried.
Something Happening Here – News Brief from the Levant
Explosions Currently, Israel is engaged in a Gaza-Southern Israel back and forth of rockets and airstrikes. A teen was killed in a Golan Heights explosion originating from Syria and Israeli Forces are responding with fire on pro-Assad fighters. Goals Israel still hasn’t found the…
Insensitivity to the future victims of today’s violence
It’s worth repeating that we should all be working and/or (at the very least) hoping for the safe return of three teenagers who were kidnapped days ago in the occupied territories. Now the question has been asked: Is it insensitive…