D’var Torah
The Haftarah Project: Shabbat Hol Hamo’ed Sukkot—Between Wrath and Hope
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- By Micah Dicker
BJ member Micah Dicker reflects on the haftarah for Shabbat Ḥol HaMo’ed Sukkot and its vision of Gog and Magog, asking how we might move ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Haftarah Project: Bemidbar—Beyond the Theatrical Prophets
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Rabbi Nancy Flam reflects on the haftarah for Bemidbar and the deeply unsettling imagery of Hosea. She challenges ...
The Haftarah Project: Vayishlah — Entangled Roots
The haftarah for Vayishlah narrates Obadiah’s prophecy of doom targeted at the Edomites, the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau.
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 ...
In the Era of Culture Wars: What We Can Learn From the Story of Joseph and His Brothers
Everyone and every group is involved in their own pain: in the righteousness, the misfortune, the suffering of their own group, in the victimhood of ...
D’var Torah: Parashat Lekh Lekha and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
I was a baby when Roe v. Wade was decided. I did not grow up wondering, should I ever need an abortion, whether I could ...
My D’var Torah
I want you to imagine getting in trouble. It doesn’t matter what it is, but you are being yelled at, and you feel bad. This ...
My D’var Torah
I want you to imagine getting in trouble. It doesn’t matter what it is, but you are being yelled at, and you feel bad. This ...
My D’var Torah
I want you to imagine getting in trouble. It doesn’t matter what it is, but you are being yelled at, and you feel bad. This ...
My D’var Torah
I want you to imagine getting in trouble. It doesn’t matter what it is, but you are being yelled at, and you feel bad. This ...
My D’var Torah
I want you to imagine getting in trouble. It doesn’t matter what it is, but you are being yelled at, and you feel bad. This ...
My D’var Torah
I want you to imagine getting in trouble. It doesn’t matter what it is, but you are being yelled at, and you feel bad. This ...
My D’var Torah
Today, some people have to be isolated because they physically need it, like when they are sick and sometimes contagious...Although some people are isolated to ...
My D’var Torah
Today, some people have to be isolated because they physically need it, like when they are sick and sometimes contagious...Although some people are isolated to ...
My D’var Torah
Today, some people have to be isolated because they physically need it, like when they are sick and sometimes contagious...Although some people are isolated to ...
My D’var Torah
Today, some people have to be isolated because they physically need it, like when they are sick and sometimes contagious...Although some people are isolated to ...
My D’var Torah
Today, some people have to be isolated because they physically need it, like when they are sick and sometimes contagious...Although some people are isolated to ...
My D’var Torah
Today, some people have to be isolated because they physically need it, like when they are sick and sometimes contagious...Although some people are isolated to ...