The Haftarah Project: Sukkot (First Day)—Imagining Shared Redemption
BJ member Martha Ackelsberg reflects on the haftarah for the first day of Sukkot and its unsettling swing between violence and redemption, asking whether we ...
Community Member
Martha Ackelsberg
Biography
Martha Ackelsberg taught political science and women’s studies at Smith until her retirement in 2014. Since then she has been enjoying the study of Jewish texts (both at BJ and elsewhere), and has been involved with the Alliance of Families for Justice and the SPSA Miracle Mondays project, through the BJ/SPSA Racial Justice initiative.
Articles Written by
Martha Ackelsberg
The Haftarah Project: Vayetze – Exploring Divine Punishment and Forgiveness
This haftarah, from the book of Hosea, is, to me, one of the more problematic in the canon. It contains extremely violent imagery, in this ...
A BJ Member’s Introduction to the Alliance of Families for Justice
Galit Lopatin Bordereau (BJ member) shares her impressions about a recent opportunity we had to support an AFJ member who lives upstate.