Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
How do scholars distinguish genocide? What does intentionality, defense, and the Holocaust have to do with it?
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Returning to Sinai after Gaza amounts to a restorative justice praxis.
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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 Ellis encountered us, and in the sacredness of meeting, we were forever changed.
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A palimpsestic approach traces peace as it is embodied and practiced by ordinary people who have left cracks in the imperial history of war.
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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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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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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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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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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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