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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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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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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Breaking With Formation: The Jew as Reactionary in American Media

Benjamin Balthaser
August 20, 2024September 30, 2024

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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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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