👀 Also here @bradlander.bsky.social casually dropping a bimheira v'yameinu in his statement...

Shot: forward.com/brad-lander-...

Chaser: jewishinsider.com/2026/04/j-st...

Opinion | Gaza’s Rubble Is the Grave of Its Future Six month’s after the cease-fire, ordinary Gazans contemplate their future while living with the wounds of war.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“War, in and of itself, has become indivisible from Gaza: It’s in the landscape, in the harsh conditions that make up our days, in our bodies,” Ghada Abdulfattah writes. “The war does not feel finished. It continues to live within us. We can’t escape it.”

Had a chance to print it out before the chag and really appreciated reading it! Definitely recommend -

very happy to have received this before seder tonight

this is really thoughtful work

This is delusional, and reflects a level of disconnection from knowledge about internal American political debates that actually explains some of Israel's behavior over the past few years. The Iran War is going to harm Israel's standing in the US, on right and left, like nothing else ever has.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Mishnah Makkot 1:10 | Sefaria Library This mishna continues to discuss the matter of testimony in the case of one who is liable to be executed. Concerning one whose verdict was delivered and he was...

.במשנה ׳שבוע׳ יכול להיות גם שבע שנים, תלוי בהקשר
www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Makk...
(ראה גם את המפרשים)

סַנְהֶדְרִין הַהוֹרֶגֶת אֶחָד בְּשָׁבוּעַ נִקְרֵאת חָבְלָנִית. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר, אֶחָד לְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה

"A Sanhedrin that executes a transgressor once in 7 years is a destructive tribunal. R Elazar ben Azarya says: once in 70 years." -- Mishnah Makkot 1:10

The law is a victory for Israel’s far right and reflects the country’s shift to the right in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the Gaza war that followed. The death penalty has long been legal in Israel, but only two people have been executed in the country’s 78-year history. The law makes death by hanging the default sentence in Israeli military courts trying Palestinians accused of killing people in militant attacks. Israeli citizens — both Jewish and Palestinian-Arab — could also face the death penalty for attacks that aim to “negate the existence of the state of Israel.” However, experts say the chances of it being applied to Jewish Israelis are minuscule.

The death penalty but it only applies to one ethnic group in the seperate courts you’ve set up to try them in www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Thank you!!! ❤️

Posting a different print format for the Halachic Left Pesach reader.

In this version, my article is on page 20:

drive.google.com/file/d/1MfyP...

The cover of Halachic Left's Pesach 5786 reader, “כי ישאלך בנך מחר” / “When Your Child Asks You in Days to Come.” The background is a light blue/periwinkle with soft clouds. The title is in Hebrew and English, and there is an illustration of a man holding a small child in his arms as she points towards the sky. The cover also says "Essays for Pesach 5786" and "Published by Halachic Left" at the bottom.

🔥 Our 5786 Pesach reader, “כי ישאלך בנך מחר” / “When Your Child Asks You in Days to Come” is now available! Download on our website (which includes different options for printing): halachicleft.org/torah

But we might have extras! If we have extra copies available, we'll send a payment link via email to the people who filled out the form.

Hi! So to clarify, this isn't an order form -- it's for people to get notified if we have extra copies.
(This is our first time printing-- we had an interest form advertised to our email list to estimate quantities so we ordered based on that.)

I ordered one!

WAITLIST/Extra printed copies: Halachic Left 5786 Pesach Reader ** only US addresses, sorry international friends ** *** We already placed our order at the printers, but there's a good chance we'll have extra copies -- sign up here to be notified if they become a...

If you're interested in a buying a printed copy (to arrive before Pesach), sign up here to be notified if we have extras (US addresses only): forms.gle/ZeHr2jESkFb5...

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Table of contents for this year's HL Pesach reader: Contents: Introduction • 7 Essays • 11 ✶ On the Limits of Parental Education by Raphael Magarik • 11 ✶ Liberation Isn’t Linear: Learning from Rambam’s Snatched Matzah by Rabbi Margo Hughes-Robinson • 16 ✶ Challenging Our Moral Imaginations by Liana Wertman • 22 ✶ “I Behold the Tears of the Oppressed”: Nahmanides and the Revolutionary Message of the Exodus by Rabbi David Polsky • 27 ✶ “And God Commanded Moshe and Aharon Regarding the Israelites, to Let them Free”: Lessons in Community Organizing from the Exodus Story by Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein • 35 ✶ It Is Forbidden to Live in Egypt by Amit Gvaryahu • 43 ✶ Becoming Pharaoh by Maya Rosen • 49 Suggested Tzedakah • 57 About Halachic Left • 59

Featuring essays from @raphaelmagarik.bsky.social, @mhughesrob.bsky.social, Liana Wertman, @motownrabbi.bsky.social, Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein, Amit Gvaryahu, and Maya Rosen, and illustrations by Yavni Bar-Yam.

The cover of Halachic Left's Pesach 5786 reader, “כי ישאלך בנך מחר” / “When Your Child Asks You in Days to Come.” The background is a light blue/periwinkle with soft clouds. The title is in Hebrew and English, and there is an illustration of a man holding a small child in his arms as she points towards the sky. The cover also says "Essays for Pesach 5786" and "Published by Halachic Left" at the bottom.

🔥 Our 5786 Pesach reader, “כי ישאלך בנך מחר” / “When Your Child Asks You in Days to Come” is now available! Download on our website (which includes different options for printing): halachicleft.org/torah

Thanks for having us @motownrabbi.bsky.social !
Not every day you meet a mutual at Chavura. ☺️

The @halachicleft.org Pesach reader is here!

My piece combining Nahmanides on the meaning of the exodus with James Baldwin begins on page 27:

drive.google.com/file/d/15mDg...

Solidarity with the community of Khirbet Humsa 💔 -- if we hear of any way we can support them, we'll pass it on.

Palestinian Man Recounts Brutal Sexual Assault by Israeli Settlers

The pogroms happening against Palestinians feel like an onslaught, but don't get desensitized.
(Content warning for graphic descriptions of violence, including sexual violence.)
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/w...

Im Yirtzeh Hashem, I’ll also be presenting on it this Sunday in Ann Arbor. Private message me if you may be able to make it and would like the info.

Parenthetically, Im Yirtzeh Hashem (Inshallah, to those unfamiliar with this Jewish phrase), I have Pesach Torah on this expectation and Baldwin’s anti-Semitism essay in @halachicleft.org ‘s forthcoming Pesach reader.

This was awesome today, so glad I got to attend

TODAY!!!! Starting in about 90 minutes -- register for the Zoom if you haven't yet!

Or if you're in Boston/Cambridge, come in person! We'll have Veggie Crust 😄

"... We’ll demonstrate that this argument is wrong textually and shallow philosophically, and seek to lay the groundwork for a more accurate and serious Jewish conversation about how our religious obligations intersect with our secular citizenship."

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper's shiur: "A Halakhic Perspective on Ethically Motivated Civil Disobedience"

"The halakhic principle dina demalkhuta dina is often cited as meaning that Jews are obligated to obey 'the law of the land.' That appears to rule out civil disobedience as a Jewish political tactic..."

Jewish Reckoning With Power A Halachic Left Learning Series | Part 1 (Boston) Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, Rabbi Avigayil Halpern, and Rabbi Jonah Winer Sunday, March 15, 1:00-5:00pm EDT Cambridge Community Center (and via Zoom) Register at bit.ly/hl-power *** We believe in learning Torah from all. Speaking does not imply agreement with Halachic Left's political positions. Institutional affiliations are for identification purposes only.

🔥 Come to our 1st event in "Jewish Reckoning with Power: A Halachic Left Learning Series"
SUNDAY in Cambridge, MA (+Zoom), 1-5pm EDT w/ R Aryeh Klapper, R Avigayil Halpern, & R Jonah Winer

Come in person: bit.ly/hl-power or register for Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Shiur descriptions in 🧵