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We harm the black community - Jewish and not - when we appropriate black culture. We reinforce the idea of black culture as a commodity to be sampled, mocked, and tossed aside when we're finished.
Willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice is, indeed, a Jewish sensibility. However, it is a sensibility that is carefully limited.
For when Yosef was brought down into Egypt, he lost the memory of what it uniquely means to be a member of the Israelite people.
2017 was a dumpster fire of a year any way you look at it. Nazis marched the streets of America, rapists went unpunished, we started talking about nuclear war again, and California burned down. It was a terrible year for…
This Hanukkah, I pray to also learn from those who remind us that the impossible is possible bazman hazeh, in this, our time.
Beating back over a $1 millon dollar campaign, workers vote overwhemingly to unionize at the Stamford Hilton.
How can we broading the Channukah story and learn about other ways to respond to oppression besides the violent resistance of the Maccabees?
As we light the Channukah candles this year, may we celebrate our own liberation and reflect on how we wield our power as Jews.