Marc H. Ellis: A Life of Encounter
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Marc Ellis encountered us, and in the sacredness of meeting, we were forever changed.
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Marc H. Ellis: Doing the Impossible
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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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Remembering Marc H. Ellis: A Personal Reflection
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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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Marc Ellis and the Refusal of Innocence
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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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Marc H. Ellis, an Aesthetic Jew of Conscience in the New Diaspora
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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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Marc H. Ellis (Z”L): Living the Prophetic
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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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