The Haftarah Project: Mas’ei—Who Gets the Blame?
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Judith Plaskow reflects on the haftarah for Ma’sei and the troubling use of sexualized metaphor to depict Israel’s ...
Monthly Archives:July 2025
The Haftarah Project: Pinhas—Not the Elijah We Thought We Knew
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- By Ira Wolfman
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Ira Wolfman reflects on the haftarah for Pinhas and the lesser-known portrait of Elijah—not as a hero of ...
The Haftarah Project: Balak—Holding Contradiction
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Judith Plaskow reflects on the haftarah for Balak and the tension between divine anger and prophetic beauty. Through ...
The Haftarah Project: Hukkat—Yiftah, his Mother, and his Daughter
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Joanne Palmer reflects on the haftarah for Hukkat and the women whose names and voices are absent. Through ...