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Shattered Tablets, Shattered Selves: Beyond Idols and Airstrikes

Mar 21, 2025 | jewschool.com | Aryeh Bernstein

by Aron Wander“The extreme nationalisms of our century are laboratories for the study of what ultimate concern means in all aspects of human existence, including the smallest concern of one’s daily life.
Monarchy is Idolatry: The Revolution of Revelation and the Real Project Esther

Mar 13, 2025 | jewschool.com | Aryeh Bernstein

by Annie Sommer KaufmanA version of this piece was originally shared orally as a devar torah for Parshas Yisro at Congregation Mah Tovu, in Chicago. My comrades and I have been paying a lot of attention to the Book of Esther lately. We’re writing a theater piece to perform on Purim, and we’re resisting the political project designed by the Heritage Foundation named Project Esther, which is a key component of Project 2025 and its authoritarian agenda.
Equality After October 7

Oct 10, 2024 | jewschool.com | Ilana Sumka

What could the Israeli government have done differently after October 7? A number of people asked me this when I called for a ceasefire on October 18, 2023 and became an active member of Rabbis 4 Ceasefire. What else could Israel have done, other than go to war? I have an answer, and I’ve had one all along. And I’m ashamed that I haven’t been more vocal in expressing it.
“A Fly Between Two Openings of the Heart”: The Hostage Murders and (not) Feeling the Pain

Sep 2, 2024 | jewschool.com | Shaul Magid

We begin where all mourning begins. We say their names: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Almog Sarusi, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, and Ori Danino. These six young souls had lives to live, people to love, a world to see, brokenness to fix. None of that will happen now. They are the latest victims of a bloodbath that has taken too many lives. How many innocent lives is too many lives? Every innocent life is too many lives. Every. Single. One. But we become numb and thus immune to death.
A Book Bound at Both Ends: The Enigmatic Life and Death of Dovid Din

Jul 31, 2024 | jewschool.com | Shaul Magid

Photo caption: Dovid Din at the author’s wedding, 1983*“I have transferred all my hedonism to the spiritual level.”–Dovid Din, NYC, April 10, 1986“My whole purpose is to get everyone off the earth, not down to it.”Dovid Din, NYC, September 25, 1986Dovid Din wrote almost nothing. All we have are cassettes, now CDs, of his classes from 1982-1987. All citations are taken from those recordings, which I now own, thanks to the generosity of his wife Bracha.
Revelation and Forgetting: Moshe, Mediation, and the Beginning and End of Torah

Jun 6, 2024 | jewschool.com | Shaul Magid

There is a stark and striking difference between the absence of Moshe in the Passover Haggadah and the centrality of Moshe on Shavout.
Saluting the Students Observing Mitzvot in Campus Encampments for Palestine: My Full Statement to the Chicago Tribune

May 5, 2024 | jewschool.com | Aryeh Bernstein

Image by Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune, May 5, 2024, “At U. of C. encampment, Jewish organizers explain significance of their anti-Zionist Shabbat service“The Chicago Tribune published a good article, written by food reporter Ahmed Ali Akbar, on the Jewish presence and prayer and Shabbat observance at the United for Palestine encampment on the University of Chicago quadrangle. I’m quoted in the article, in support of the students and their Jewish observance.
The Desecration of a Gaza Memorial at Marquette University

Apr 23, 2024 | jewschool.com | Rachel Ida Buff

On Sunday, April 7, the Marquette University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) planted 41,000 flags on campus in recognition of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They acted with the full knowledge and permission of the university administration. It was a solemn and nonviolent display of solidarity and humanity. That same night, the flags were vandalized by three individuals with no association with the university.
Rest for Radicals: Shabbat HaGadol as General Strike

Apr 19, 2024 | jewschool.com | Raphael Magarik

This piece is part of a השתא הכא/Hashata Hakha, a justice-oriented Haggadah reader with contributions from members of Halachic Left, All That’s Left, and HaSmol HaEmuni, designed by Caroline Morganti, and edited by Liz Bentley, Max Buchdahl, Maya Rosen, Aron Wander, and Netanel Zellis-Paley. Jewschool is proud to partner with this publication in sharing some of the contributions.
What is liberation this year?

Apr 17, 2024 | jewschool.com | Aryeh Cohen

Moving from Purim to Pesach this year is hard. Purim hits too close to home—the threat of a massacre of the Jewish community, the massacre of the Shushanites, the instability at the end of the Megillah—who will next get the King’s ring and license for genocide? Pesach offers liberation, Divine intervention in the world, the appearance of God over the splitting sea (according to the midrash) when everybody could literally point and say “this is my God”, and God’s crushing of cruel oppression.