Life is a Sacred Text (Page 3)

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Palm trees and desert

We Made it Through the Wilderness

Numbers, You Sure Counted

Photo of a Black person, with the reflection of US Flags seen behind them in the window

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proclaim liberty

many declarations, interwoven

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read this instead

good things for brainmeats and heartbeats

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on the road again

Five Black American-appearing women standing in the front yard, could be anytime mid 1970s-1990s, easily

Tzlofchad's Daughters and the Master's Tools

Can we make true institutional change?

Bunch of Jews with arms around each other

Hilchot (the laws of) Pluralism

What makes true pluralism possible?

Balaam blessing the Children of Israel, December 1791 sketch of man standing, arms outstretched

When We Look to See

Everything Opens Up

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Women in the Wilderness

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GUEST POST: The Torah I Learned at ACT UP

How Judaism Brought Me Closer To My Father’s Memory as A Second Generation Queer Parent, by Elsa Sjunneson

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Yellow-orange lithograph of Moses and a lot of israelites with water, naive art/fauvist style.

The Rock that Broke

...And the heart that broke with it.

Creepy animals and demon people eat people with haloes on their heads

It's The War of Gog and Magog (And I Feel Fine)

What's a little apocalyptic military meltdown among friends

it's a red heifer

The Red Heifer, Christian Zionism, and the Dangers Of Now

How a Holy Cow encapsulates an unholy zealot alliance

sinkhole near the dead sea

The Land Down Under(world)

Some Jewish Perspectives on the Afterlife

Untangling Korach

Untangling Korach

Sometimes the only way to get clarity is by trying to peel back the layers to see how close we might get to the beginning.

Lenny Bruce, 1961.

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Everyday People(hood)

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On Investigating Judaism

Advice and resources for getting to know Judaism better

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Cool Things Post!

Give Back Indigenous Property Save Mother Nature Pacha Mama sign, people marching

"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In

Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

circles of seven colors, many with rings of some of the other colors and centers of the other other colors

Counting On It

every ritual exists on a myriad of levels at once

MAD Magazine's Spy vs Spy except carrying grapes a la Caleb & Joshua

Spy vs. Spy

Or: How Stories Tell (on) Us

illuminated manuscript depicting four of the plagues

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Whither the Plagues

Four femme presenting people lying around a gigantic seder plate with a galactic background.

Seder Sources and Resources

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Rabbi x Mailbag Time Again

A bunch of cartoon villains!

misc essays Featured

The Antisemitism Post (tm)

Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

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