From the Newsletter | Sniffing Out the Messiah in 2023
2023 promises to be a tumultuous year. Instead of looking for saviors, let’s make it a year of study, justice, and love in our own lives.
2023 promises to be a tumultuous year. Instead of looking for saviors, let’s make it a year of study, justice, and love in our own lives.
“It took me a long time, but I learned how to love people,” says Rabbi Arthur Waskow. “I realized I had been not-soft, not-loving. I’d been sharp and smart, maybe even partly wise, but not loving.”
Three years after the Hanukkah stabbing attack in Monsey, NY, both antisemitic attacks and mental health crises are still on the rise.
The most dangerous conspiracy theories start with a germ of truth that can make them difficult to identify and condemn.
This widespread violence is a national crisis with cultural, political and spiritual dimensions.
Animator Crow Ra and collaborator Remy Slimp on their experience fleeing the war. “The more you know who you are, the stronger your magic is.”
The apparent noninvolvement by any Jewish lawmakers raised eyebrows in some sectors of the American Jewish community, but proponents see another tool in the fight against antisemitism.
Flapping proudly in fallow fields, large green and yellow banners in rural Israel proclaim: Kan Shomrim Shmita (“Here We Keep Shmita”).
“The focus of the fest this year was about investing in solutions, and pulling away from supporting the systems that perpetuate the problem,”
Moment checks in with four participants from our Jewish Political Voices Project to ask for their reflections on this dramatic day.