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Witnessing Without Redemption: The Remnant and the Refusal of Closure

Jane Barter
April 8, 2026

Witnessing, then, is not about closure but interruption. It is an ethical practice oriented toward what remains unresolved in the present.

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No Catholic Brand of Christian Zionism, or Tolerance for Antisemitism

Jordan Denari Duffner and Julie Schumacher Cohen
March 12, 2026March 12, 2026

Catholics cannot repair their relationship with Jews at the expense of Palestinians, who have experienced Zionism as subjugation, dispossession, and discrimination.

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Judaism as an Occupied Territory

Moshe Behar
February 10, 2026March 6, 2026

Can the creeping occupation of Judaism by militant ethnonationalist Zionism be disrupted somehow?

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Letter from Scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish History, and Antisemitism Against the Adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in New Jersey

Raz Segal
January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Targeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself.

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Cracks in the Wall: Pope Francis and Palestine

Series: The Legacy of Pope Francis
John Munayer and Samuel Munayer
August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

Through both his public declarations and private acts, Pope Francis offered a holistic witness to Palestinian humanity.

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The Eyes of Silwan: The “Undefeated” Powers of Palestinian Struggle

Mark Lewis Taylor
August 15, 2025August 15, 2025

The eyes of Silwan represent the power of the dead for the living in Palestine.

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

Series: CM Conversations
Yaacov Yadgar and William Cavanaugh
July 16, 2025July 23, 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.

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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?

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God is Getting Tired

Thandi Gamedze
June 30, 2025June 30, 2025

It’s clear that God is getting tired

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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,…

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