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Nation Statism and the Jewish Tradition: William Cavanaugh Interviews Yaacov Yadgar

Yaacov Yadgar and William Cavanaugh
July 16, 2025

I think it is a given that the multiplicity of human languages, traditions, practices, etc. diversify and enrich our ways of being in the world; this multiplicity is a good thing

In the Ruins of the Modern

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Atalia Omer
July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

Is it possible to decolonize secularity and extract it from its nest in racialized modern and colonial formations?

God is Getting Tired

Thandi Gamedze
June 30, 2025June 30, 2025

It’s clear that God is getting tired

Inter-Racist Solidarities and the Case of the White Afrikaner Refugee

Series: Afrikaner Refugees and the Geopolitics of White Supremacy

Thandi Gamedze
June 18, 2025

In 1977, a few months prior to his arrest and subsequent murder by the South African apartheid state, Steve Biko,…

Professor Atalia Omer and guest lecturer Peter Beinart discussing Beinart's new book on March 3, 2025.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Contending Modernities
June 17, 2025

Jews must now tell a new story to answer the horrors that a Jewish country has perpetrated, argues Peter Beinart.

Costly Solidarity

Contending Modernities
May 19, 2025May 22, 2025

Rev. Munther Isaac called for an interfaith coalition for justice to combat theologies of supremacy and exclusion that make genocide possible.

David Grossman’s Camouflage of Violence

Omri Ben Yehuda
December 27, 2024December 27, 2024

Grossman’s story is first of all the story of a mother whose burning love for her young son collapses under the national narrative of violence and death.

Photo of white flags on a Notre Dame quad in memory of Palestinian children killed since October 2023.

Israel’s Genocidal Assault on Gaza: A Lecture with Raz Segal

Contending Modernities
December 17, 2024December 18, 2024

How do scholars distinguish genocide? What does intentionality, defense, and the Holocaust have to do with it?

After Gaza, Standing Again at Sinai

Series: Theology after Gaza

Atalia Omer
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

Returning to Sinai after Gaza amounts to a restorative justice praxis.

A Letter to the President of Tel Aviv University

Khaled Furani
September 19, 2024September 30, 2024

Ultimately, when you fear violence that is against “the law” yet normalize the violence of “the law,” my safety is not the only casualty. Yours is too.

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