Notre Dame de Paris in Flames
byOne cannot deny the deep and complex emotional reactions of Jews to a flaming Notre Dame.
Opinion
Netanyahu Election Commitments Reveal Outdated ‘Zionist’ Logic
byThe moment Jews have power, we can no longer concern ourselves only with self-preservation. Power must shift our focus from that of an object with a problem to a subject with desires.
A Primitive ‘Settler’ Like Myself
byTo mark the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Menaḥem Froman, please enjoy an English translation of a piece he originally published in Haaretz on July 22, 2005 – less than one month before all Jews were forcibly expelled from the Gaza region.
Advice for Those Attending the AIPAC Policy Conference
byThose attending the AIPAC Policy Conference in DC should ask some very important questions about Jewish liberation and the US-Israel relationship.
Breaking Free from Aḥashverosh
byThe objective shouldn’t have been greater proximity to power – to replace Haman with Mordekhai as prime minister – but rather the dismantling of an unjust system and a mass return to Jerusalem.
There was once a political party
byIt’s difficult to believe that Israel once offered a political option for voters who would today feel torn between Ḥadash and the national religious parties.
Loving the Colonizer: St. Valentine, Tu B’Av & the Christian-not-so-Judeo Civilization
byThe schism between the Western & Hebrew cultural gap is profound in Israeli society. It’s worth thinking hard about which side of the divide is truly free.
7 Facts About Yair on the 25th of Shvat
byStern was a revolutionary poet who inspired a liberation movement that restored Jewish independence to our land after nearly 2,000 years.
Yair
byHistory is almost always advanced by the visionaries willing to dream & act while the herd merely sleeps.
The Ins & Outs of Post-Modernism
byThe reconstruction of identities and meanings happens again and again in our people’s history.
They Didn’t Teach Me Ḥanukah
byIt wasn’t until some years after I had left the Jewish education system that I realized I didn’t actually know the story behind Ḥanukah.
Z’khor Y’mot Olam: Ḥanukah
byWe refer to our enemies in this period as ‘Yevanim’ not for geopolitical reasons, but for the primordial cultural force that they represented and spread via their temporal power.