Effectiveness of Activist Tactics: Trauma and Awareness
What are effective organizing tactics, and how are they used? Can you build a movement by alienating folks who might be persuadable? What do litmus tests do for the health […]
December 3, 2024
November 26, 2024
Glorifying Violent Resistance
How do you make change with the violent resistance of oppressed people, and what is the long-term impact? What’s the difference between resistance and terrorism? During the last Pride Month, […]
November 22, 2024
It’s Been a Year, and This Thanksgiving I’m Thankful for…
If your year has been anything like mine, it has been the year that has kept on punching, leaving me stumbling around the ring and hanging on for dear life […]
November 19, 2024
Performative Activism vs Real Change
What is performative activism, and does performance have a place in change-making? Performative activism is the idea that a group or person pushes for change on a surface level, where […]
November 15, 2024
On Settler Colonialism: Reflecting on Adam Kirsch’s Newest Book
As the saying goes, knowledge is recognizing that tomatoes are a fruit, but wisdom is knowing not to put them in your fruit salad. In other words, sometimes there is […]
November 12, 2024
Activism, Change, and Organizing
What I have learned over the last year about creating systemic change and how I can use those lessons to make the world I want to see. In June, I […]
November 1, 2024
Judaism’s Greatest Competition Isn’t Other Religions, Its Secularism
“What holiday is coming up next?” This can be a dangerous question in Progressive Jewish spaces. Because inevitably, depending on the season, a kid will raise their hand and say […]
October 29, 2024
The Coming Storm Part V: Final Thoughts
Some years ago, I was introduced to a young woman through some mutual friends. She was a lovely person and had a lot of questions for me — I was […]
October 22, 2024
The Coming Storm Part IV: Maiy Nafka Mina? (What Are We Going to Do About It?)
One of my favorite Talmudic phrases, maiy nafka mina, literally means, “what comes out of it,” a sort of rabbinic, “So what?” For a study of antisemitism in this moment, […]
October 17, 2024
A Rabbinic Reflection on the Death of Yahya Sinwar
I was a high schooler in Jerusalem when the father of mass terrorism against my people, Yassar Arafat, died. His death brought me messy emotions: Satisfaction that this agent of […]