The newly transformed election has its roots — danger and possibility — deep in US history.

There is an old proverb: [Take a deep breath and don't jump to conclusions of what I mean before you read the next three paragraphs. The proverb goes:] “If you shoot at a king, kill him!”

Major Win in Extreme Heat Protections for Workers — Dept. of Labor proposes historic heat safety rules

What if we looked at the Biden agony as a real-life allegory about the failure of Hierarchy as a way of understanding the world?

An imagined, but now possible scenario

An ancient echo of the Declaration of Independence, a sacred summary of the moral and political qualities and policies of a devoted king or president or prime minister, in a moment when it may be unusually valuable.

Nicholas Kristof (New York Times) on the crisis building in the West Bank

As Tisha B’av approaches, The Shalom Center is once again teaming up with Jewish Earth Alliance for Pre-Tisha B’av Virtual Lobby Day on August 8.

When human beings shaped in the Image of God kill other human beings made in the Image of God, God is inconsolable.

A multiracial, multigenerational, cross-class movement this summer for a campaign of sustained nonviolent direct action, demanding that Wall Street stop investing in, financing, and insuring fossil fuels.

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.”