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Let's Talk About Sects, Baby

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Let's Talk About Sects, Baby

Jewish Denominations (and Non-Denominations), A 'Splainer

Esther: The Patron, uh, Saint of Crypto-Jewry

Esther: The Patron, uh, Saint of Crypto-Jewry

honoring the legacies of those living double life

fortify inside

why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

Feel. Then Do.

our work in this new era

this, instead

some things to hear / read / see / do / learn this week

we are holiness and stardust

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we are holiness and stardust

Gratitudes

mine, and a tool to help spark yours

The Lachish Reliefs

The Lachish Reliefs

an historical horror, from another POV

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On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

the day after

notes on feeling our way into this next chapter

apple carved to look like a butterfly

Head of the Year

Biblically accurate angel with halo and wings and horns and tail

Guest Post: S. Bear Bergman is feeling... inclined

On the yetzers -- the good and evil inclinations in Judaism

A dedication stone to Christopher Columbus and STOLEN LAND is graffiti'd on top of it

Jews and Colonialism

tell every truth, push your understanding of power

Photo of a white masc person with a goatee and a cowboy hat outside, looking pensive

read this instead

a party platter of bites for heart, brain and soul

Rabbi Alan Lew, z'l

Food. Money. Sex. Tech.

a practice to see yourself more closely, from Rabbi Alan Lew

top image is a before/after nose job drawing. Bottom is prince charming putting the slipper on Cinderella.

Jews, Gender and Assimilation

Roots! Tropes! Tensions!

It's an album cover for the band the Liz Pharisees

Wrapping up Jesus

A sample platter of Gospel x Rabbinics mashups

Jesus on the cross wrapped in a tallis, Jews persecuted elsewhere in the frame

Jesus and Beit Hillel (Part 2!)

And Matthew 23. Let's have a look.

Lotta dudes with turbans and tallitot hunched over, looking conspiratorial

Jesus and the Jews: Part One

The first of a 3-part series on the Gospels and Jewish text

Painting of a ship's deck with "You are here"-type pointers on it, like a map.

find your place on deck

another world is possible-- but we must start living into it today

Photo of a Black person, with the reflection of US Flags seen behind them in the window

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proclaim liberty

many declarations, interwoven

Black and white photo of a white man with a bandanna on his head

GUEST POST: The Torah I Learned at ACT UP

How Judaism Brought Me Closer To My Father’s Memory as A Second Generation Queer Parent, by Elsa Sjunneson

Lenny Bruce, 1961.

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Everyday People(hood)

tree branches sky leaves

On Investigating Judaism

Advice and resources for getting to know Judaism better

A bunch of cartoon villains!

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The Antisemitism Post (tm)

Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.