Response to "Genocide and the Burden of History" · Jewschool
Responding to Yehuda Kurtzer's essay "Genocide and the Burden of History"| Jewschool
Responding to Yehuda Kurtzer's essay "Genocide and the Burden of History"| Jewschool
Three decades after my bat mitzvah, All of my Hebrew school teachers, youth group counselors, rabbis, and that lady with the guitar from camp. They got us all back together to issue some corrections. “We didn’t really mean that,” they said.| Jewschool
30 articles articulating why the ADL is no longer a legitimate civil rights organization representative of American Jews and how Greenblatt and his organization have turned their backs on both civil rights and the sizable portion of the American Jewish community that identifies as progressive| Jewschool
(for Simcha, because he asked) There has been much writing these past days about Israel’s choice to strike Iran, and Iran’s response. What I have read thus far is pretty predictable, some opinions more enlightening than others. Israel’s defenders claim the attack was “preemptive” and legitimate, even necessary, Israel’s detractors The post The Prophecy of Balaam “A People that dwells alone” or the Prophecy of Isaiah, “A Light to the nations”: Thoughts in this Precarious Mo...| Jewschool
If we expect to defeat antisemitism, we must expand who we understand to be a member of B’nei Yisrael, who we are bound to. Now, more than ever, we must turn towards our non-Jewish community members in need and use our voices and our bodies to protect them—and fight like hell while doing it.| Jewschool
It was late June, 2004, my first summer working at The Seeds of Peace Camp on the shores of Pleasant Lake in Otisfield, Maine. “I’m| Jewschool
The further one gets from a moment in history, including a catastrophe, the more one begins to think about it comparatively. The Holocaust is a great example. Richard Rubenstein published After Auschwitz in 1966 sparking a scholarly subdiscipline of “post-Holocaust theology” that included a debate about the Holocaust’s uniqueness. This inspired thinking The post Triumphalism and Desperation, or, “To What May October 7 be Compared?”: Is October 7 the End of an Era that Began in Jun...| Jewschool
On Israel Independence Day 1997 Rav Shagar addressed the students in his yeshiva Siah Yitzhak in Efrat on the West Bank. His sermon was published as ““Land and Exile: The Religious Community and the Pursuit of Peace.” Below is my analysis of this sermon and reading it in a post-October The post Is Religious Zionism Obsolete?: Thoughts on Israel Independence Day based on Rav Shagar’s Sermon “Land and Exile: The Religious Community and the Pursuit of Peace” (1997) appeared first on ...| Jewschool
In 1906, two years after Herzl’s death, a year after the first Russian revolution, and a few years since Aaron Shmuel Tamares (1869-1931) returned despondent from the Fourth Zionist Congress in London in 1900, he published an essay entitled (“Herut” – “Liberty”), an extended meditation on Passover as a “festival The post A Passover Interlude: The Difference between Freedom and Liberation: Reflections on Aaron Shmuel Tamares’ essay “Herut/Liberty” (1906) appeared first on J...| Jewschool
Those of us who care about Israel, and want to stop its oppression of Palestinians, should cease working with organizations like the WZO that entrench Jewish supremacy.| Jewschool
