For Jewish Currents, I wrote a short Pesah reflection about selling out, the slide from counter-culture to counter-revolution, and what happens after the Exodus. jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/s...
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Beg your pardon?
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.
I and others were asked by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for Haggadah recommendations; here was my slightly curmudgeonly answer.
Yes, the Postone Sefer (brought by his father, I believe, from Europe) is now at Rodfei. I’ve leyned from it a few times. From what I understand, he came to shul often. But I don’t know where he lived—the north side just seems a little unlikely to me.
I thought Postone lived on the south side, because he was a member of a Hyde Park synagogue and taught at the UOC. Was I wrong about that?
“on both the left and the right”
Even when there was some truth to it, it was always overstated for polemical reasons, some benign (tactical moves by Israeli center-left) and some not so much (insulating Israeli society from criticism). Hirschhorn’s work is a clear example of the slide between this argument and hasbarah.
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I write about Brecht, Vivian Gornick, the menorah, the labor theory of value, and commodity fetishism: jewishcurrents.org/parshah/febr...
Delightful little story about visiting the Holy Land from the anti-Zionist Hasidic Rebbe of Munkacz.
