Tevet
byLook back one more time At the lights in the window Flickering, warming Smiling sadly To send me on my way A tear trickles…
Vayigash: Recognizing Yosef
byDid Yosef use the famine to bring his family down to Egypt in hopes of implementing an alternative approach to the Hebrew mission in the Diaspora?
Mashiaḥ ben Yosef (I)
byWhat is the force of Yosef in the collective Hebrew identity & what is its relevance to contemporary cultural conflicts in the State of Israel?
Asara B’Tevet
byThere is an undercurrent in Jerusalem Blood stirs in the people And the people throb like blood. Through veins they whimper at the guards…
Protestors Demand Justice for Teenager Killed While Fleeing Police
byThe fact that authorities took aggressive measures to keep paramedics and even a Knesset lawmaker away from the accident scene will only increase suspicions that the police caused Sandak’s death.
Mikeitz: Egypt’s Hebrew Viceroy
byDid Yosef seek to transform Egypt into a civilization built on Hebrew values that would repair the world?
Decolonize Ḥanukah (with Aryeh Shapiro)
byApplying Frantz Fanon’s basic framework from ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ helps us to better understand Seleucid-Greek rule in Judea, as well as the popular guerrilla uprising that rose out of the Jewish people.
Ḥag HaBanot
byḤag HaBanot honors the heroism of our women in the struggle to free Judea from Seleucid-Greek rule.
Indigenous Sun
byPrior to my personal rising, before the stirring in my heart and my moment of rebirth, I mocked indigenous ideation because I did not understand it. I dismissed it as foreign to my Jewish experience.
Vayeishev: Yosef & Yehuda
byAs internal conflict over the Hebrew clan’s direction leads to tragic consequences for Yosef and Yehuda, each must discover his own messianic potential.
Ḥanukah, Fanon & the Failure of Individualism
byFrantz Fanon provides us with a broad framework for better understanding the actions and motivations of the Maccabi guerrilla underground.
The War of Attrition (I): Challenging National Conceptions
byWhat did President Gamal Abdel Nasser mean by a ‘war of attrition’ with Israel in the wake of the Six Day War that humiliated Egypt and the Arab world?