A recent NYT article provides a glimpse at beginnings of prophetic action in advance of potential post-election changes.

Sign up today to join The Shalom Center at Judaism Unbound’s ShavuotLIVE, an event that celebrates and transforms the Shavuot tradition of all-night learning into a full-on 24-hour festival of learning from June 8-9th!

The Shalom Center is once again joining Judaism Unbound in ShavoutLIVE, an event that celebrates and transforms the Shavuot tradition of all-night learning into a full-on 24-hour festival of learning!

R’ Arthur continues with the final part of the New Diaspora Judaism series, highlighting the ways we can “elevate the holy days of our sacred calendar, so that they not only recall efforts of creativity and freedom in the past, but use public rituals old and new to transform the future toward more justice, more love” — what we at The Shalom Center call Actifests.

R’ Arthur continues his series, begun yesterday, exploring what the Judaism of the next generation could be.

In some Jewish circles all over the American Diaspora, there have been the bubblings of new approaches to what the Judaism of the next generation could be.

Hooray, Hooray — We bring the Jubilee! Yes, the US Army carrying Leviticus 25 as its battle cry, joined some Black revolutionaries in 1865 to end slavery.

Rabbi Burt Jacobson has spent years writing an exploration of the deepest teachings of the Baal Shem Tov. He wrote an essay on the Besht and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that we excerpt here, together with the link to the whole essay.

Excerpts from a piece by Michael S. Roth, president of president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, explaining why he is allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to pitch tents on campus.

As colleges bring police into pro-palestinian protest encampments , Rick Perlstein observes, “the response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.”

According to tradition, on the seventh day of Passover, the band of runaway Israelite slaves had fled Narrrowland (Egypt) and stood on the edge of the Unknown. This November, the American people will face the Unknown at the national election, which comes just two weeks after the Fall Harvest Festival of Sukkot.

Rabbi Toba Spitzer shares her personal account of an action on the Gaza border, coinciding with Passover, to lift up the theme of “let all who are hungry come and eat”.

We invite you to join us this Sunday for a special book event — On Sunday, May 5th at 7pm ET (4pm PT) Rabbis Ariana Katz and Jessica Rosenberg will be with The Shalom Center to discuss their new book, For Times Such As These.

A reminder: This Thursday, April 25, you are invited to join The Shalom Center for an online webinar featuring Shaul Magid, author of the new book The Necessity of Exile, in conversation with Rabbi Arthur Waskow, on the transformative notion and practice of a deliberate new Diaspora Judaism to help guide us in the years ahead.  

An invitation/call from Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and IfNotNow

Today let us pause on Shabbat HaGadol, heed the words of the Prophet Malachi, and invite ourselves to shoulder the task of Elijah by taking active roles in the world for healing Earth, not devastating the next generation.

A prayer and call to outlaw climate pollution

Rabbi Shaul Magid, a Dartmouth scholar and public intellectual, author of the new book The Necessity of Exile, will be leading a webinar on “New Diaspora Judaism” from 7:30 to 9pm Eastern time (4:30 Pacific time) on Thursday evening April 25, the fifth evening of Pesach.

Our wise forebears realized that intimate experience of death might so deeply traumatize people that they would need a ritual reentry to communal activities. So we have midrashically drawn on the ritual of the Red Heifer to precede the Seder.

A Call for Grieving and Healing

Authored by the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning, a Project of We the World dedicated to Michael Lerner and to the memory of Peter Gabel