BJ member Ruth Jarmul reflects on the haftarah for Shabbat HaGadol and what it means to pursue redemption in an unsettled world.
BJ member Jane Gronau reflects on the haftarah for Parah and the long tradition of linking holiness, impurity, and communal meaning to women’s bodies.
BJ member Michal Bowen reflects on the haftarah for Zakhor and explores the moral and spiritual dangers of invoking Amalek in our own time.
BJ member Jack Stern reflects on the haftarah for Vayehi and and the cost of silence in the face of violence.
BJ Rabbinic Fellow Iliana Brodsky reflects on the haftarah for Vayishlah and explores how Ovadia’s searing prophecy challenges us to seek justice without surrendering to ...
BJ member Carmen Arick reflects on the haftarah for Toledot and explores how we might speak God’s “love language” through intention and integrity.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Betty Jane Jacobs reflects on the haftarah for Behukkotai and the inner forces that lead us astray. Through ...
In this week's Haftarah Project, Jane Gronau reflects on the haftarah for Mishpatim and its troubling acceptance of slavery, asking how we reconcile our sacred ...
In this week's Haftarah Project, Sharon Anstey reflects on the haftarah for Bo and its vivid, violent imagery, asking what God’s anger demands of us ...
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ Rabbinic Fellow Joe Blumberg reflects on the haftarah for Va-era and its vivid imagery of Pharaoh’s downfall, God’s justice, ...
The Ashkenazi haftarah for Shemot, plays with the fleeting nature of freedom. It opens with the image of the people of Jacob being fruitful in ...
The haftarah for Vayishlah narrates Obadiah’s prophecy of doom targeted at the Edomites, the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau.
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 ...
