You Wear Your Black, Like I Wear My Skin
DIANE (DAVIDA) BELLAMY’s poem “You Wear Your Black, Like I Wear My Skin” expresses her point of view of the shooting incident in Jersey City, NJ in 2019. She tried to make sense of it by asking herself, WHY? Could the shooter not SEE they were both wearing “Black”?
We Need Each Other: A Cry for Wholeness from the Narrow Place
RABBI DAVID JAFFE (he/him) is the founder and dean of the Kirva Institute, formerly known as the Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project, which focuses on the integration of Jewish spiritual wisdom and the work of social change.
Many Colored Dreams and Daughters of Jerusalem OR Job’s Friends
ARIELLE STEIN (she/her/hers) is a visual artist and rabbinical student.
“Untitled”
LUIS ROBERTO BURGOS (he/him) is a Black, Queer, Jewish, Neurodiverse Earthling based on Lenape land, colonially known as New York City.
Converging Paths: Drawing Lessons from Latin America for Israel and Palestine’s Democratic Journey
DR. ANALUCÍA LOPEZREVOREDO (she/her/ella) is an activist and sociologist known for her scholarly contributions in the fields of migration studies, identity development, and culture preservation.
Reading Esther in This Time of War
DAVID ARNOW is the author of “Creating Lively Passover Seders” and co-editor of “My People’s Passover Haggadah.” His most recent book is “Choosing Hope: The Heritage of Judaism.”
The Right to Die
SAMEEHA HURAINI (she/her) is a Palestinian activist from the village of Tuwani in Masafer Yatta. ALIZA SCHWARTZ (she/her) is a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, expecting to graduate this May.
The Role of ‘Americanism’ in the Israeli Far-Right
SHAUL MAGID is Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College
“Partnership in the Settlement of the Land”: Rabbi Eliezer Melamed’s Misleadingly Liberal Halakhah
RABBI AVIGAYIL HALPERN (she/her) is an educator and writer whose work focuses on feminist and queer Torah.
Release
LINDSEY HEALEY-POLLACK is a rabbi, educator, and writer.