Monthly Archives: August 2024

(Campus Protests) Jewish Students (October 7)

Posted on August 28, 2024 by zjb

So much was written about Jewish student experience of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism during the anti-Israel protests after October 7 during the 2023-2024 academic year. Much of what was said paid little mind to students themselves. What do Jewish students say … Continue reading →

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(Isaiah) Place of Consolation (7 Weeks)

Posted on August 20, 2024 by zjb

(Isaiah) What is Consolation (7 Weeks) In the prophetic imagination, consolation is a super violent and theopolitical counter-reality. Other-worldly without being otherworldly is the liturgical view drawn from the 7 haftaroth of consolation recited in the synagogue on Shabbat between … Continue reading →

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(Against Divine Violence) 9 Av (Lamentations)

Posted on August 13, 2024 by zjb

Read on the fast day of Tisha B’Av, the lament in the book of Lamentations (in Hebrew Eicha or Alas, named after the first word of the text) is a rebuke. But who is the object of recrimination? Only on … Continue reading →

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(Social Rot) 9 Av (Self-Destruction)

Posted on August 12, 2024 by zjb

Tisha B’Av is sometimes referred to as the “saddest” day on the Jewish calendar, but its impetus is political. Tisha B’Av is a unique mirror of national mourning and collective self-recrimination marked by neither reconciliation nor atonement. Read at synagogue … Continue reading →

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