“Pesach: better for peoplehood organizing, in my view, than community organizing…”

I am not enamored by the politicization of Seder symbols into clear public policy directives; they do not convince people not already marshaled to the cause and they reinforce a conflation of the twin discourses morality with specific policy approaches that ultimately serves neither. Pitching the altitude of the conversation higher creates better chances that it doesn’t devolve into pronouncements of the politics of self-interest. Pesach: better for peoplehood organizing, in my view, than community organizing, and that means telling big moral stories and not insisting on the smallness of political strategies.

Yehuda Kurtzer, Facebook post (4 April 2017) [https://www.facebook.com/yehuda.kurtzer/posts/10155240824907174]