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Remembering Marc H. Ellis

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Remembering Marc H. Ellis Articles

Marc H. Ellis: A Life of Encounter

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Jessica Wong
September 13, 2024

Marc Ellis encountered us, and in the sacredness of meeting, we were forever changed.

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Marc H. Ellis: Doing the Impossible

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Kwok Pui Lan
August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

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

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Sara Roy
July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

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

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Robert O. Smith
July 26, 2024July 26, 2024

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

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Keunjoo Christine Pae
July 23, 2024July 24, 2024

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

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Santiago Slabodsky
July 18, 2024July 19, 2024

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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