We need to hold both: our Israeli and Jewish family, and our extended family — the Palestinians in Gaza living beneath the bombs and those under assault on the West Bank.
The sense of peoplehood is the awareness that an individual has of being a
member of a group that is known, both by its own members and by outsiders,
as a people. (Mordecai Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew)
A brilliant homily for Rosh Hashanah that queers the biblical texts and suggests that there are many allusions in the Bible to the ambiguous, nonbinary gender identity of God.
By reading Dayyan HaEmet, the Judge of Reality, as “the True Judge,” interpreters run from our awareness of the randomness of creation. They seek to provide the cold comfort of a caring God whose plan for us is beyond our understanding.
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