Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Bangladesh stands at a crossroads, experiencing what many call a “second liberation” after the ignominious exit of Sheikh Hasina, its long-serving…
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Ellis’s fidelity to the prophetic tradition of Judaism and his outspoken stance made him a target of the Jewish establishment. He became an exile in his own community.
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The difference between the Jewishness of Sanders’s candidacy and Shapiro’s has less to do with who is more Jewish; it has a great deal to do with the way the idea of Jewishness has been constructed in the last few decades.
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Ellis cast a desperately needed light on a principled way forward in a post-Holocaust age with Israel as its center.
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This prophetic spirit of confrontation, the same spirit I identify in Dietrich Bonhoeffer and in Derrick Bell, is what I learned most from Prof. Ellis.
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By walking, writing, painting, and taking photographs, Ellis took his whole person into the deepest solitude and found the fear there not to lose the prophetic voice.
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The legacy of Dr. Ellis in American Jewish movements in solidarity with Palestine—in liberationist, decolonial, or other forms—is hard to overestimate.
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The past and future of India always redeems the violent exclusions in the present.
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In order to create a Jewish state, the Israeli judiciary performed the miraculous/magical act of imagining Israel’s establishment as though it were an act of self-generation.
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Hindu nationalists infuse this notion of Indian civilization with a markedly Hindu character. Often adopting a decolonial rhetoric, they portray past Muslim rulers as colonial oppressors.
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