Freedom

The rhetoric of freedom is ascendant on the right today: freedom to carry guns, freedom of religious practice, freedom from government regulation. Judaism has a much wider take on what freedom means and how it is bound up with responsibility. Join the conversation about how we can make freedom work for everyone.

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Fragments

Moses of the City x Louiefromtheblock

In 2022, NY Jewish Week named Luis Roberto Burgos one of the “36 to Watch” (formerly 36 under 36). That same year, he debuted his first photobook, Moses of the City.

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Jacob’s Freedom: Wrestling with Climate Change

Joelle Novey directs Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA), through which congregations of many traditions are responding to climate change together, and speaks widely about the role of religious voices in the climate movement.

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Annexing the Palisades

Alex Goldberg is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director.

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Foundry

Anna Wrobel (she/her), daughter of postwar refugees, is an American historian, teacher, poet and Holocaust Studies educator whose poems and essays appear in journals including Lilith and Jewish Currents.

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Tikkun Olam Today

Joules Huang Duze (they/them) is a writer, educator, and Doer.

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Support for Anti-BDS Laws Weakens the First Amendment

Jonathan Backer is an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

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