“For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation”
For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation. First,...
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“…when the status of Tisha be-Av is argued frontally and ideologically, the result is friction, dissention, and a status quo stalemate”
…when the status of Tisha be-Av is argued frontally and ideologically, the result is...
“…we should note the tension between these kinnot seminars and the classical image of Tisha be-Av”
The second change relates to the in-synagogue services on Tisha be-Av morning. Traditionally, people...
“…as VHS technology became widely available in the mid-1980s, synagogues started screening ‘Tisha be-Av videos’ throughout the afternoon”
…as VHS technology became widely available in the mid-1980s, synagogues started screening “Tisha be-Av...
“Online Jewish communities…provide…types of symbols and language…that help reinforce communal identity and unity”
Anderson explains the use of language and symbols that help reinforce communal identity and...
“Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the tools used in beer production…are often linked to bread-making…”
Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the...
“White nationalists in the United States perceive the country as having plunged into unending crisis…”
Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively...
“If you feel the need to interrogate every Jew and demand they denounce Israel (or any other Jews or Jewish actions) before allowing them into your space, you are a racist”
Jews are not collectively accountable for the actions of all other Jews, any more...
“…so much focus is put on prayer at the ruin of the Temple by the very Jews who least ache for that spot to re-emerge as the center of Jewish spirituality”
I am sometimes bemused by the fact that so much focus is put on...
“…it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around”
If I live and work, as I do, in the kind of daily, intimate...