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NewGround Spotlight and a contest!
NewGround is one of our favorite organizations. Their main activity is a year long fellowship for Muslim and Jewish adults in which the participants learn communication and conflict resolution in order...
View Article#TBT Parashat Hayei Sarah: Hebron — City of Refuge, Where Violence Goes to Die
This Shabbat’s Torah portion is Hayei Sarah, which begins with Avraham’s purchase of land in Hebron to bury Sarah. In contemporary Israel, it is also a weekend of aggressive, nationalistic pilgrimage...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Ending Torture, the CIA, and the Obama Administration
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee finally released its report on torture as practiced by the CIA on terrorism suspects in the post-9/11 years, opening and re-opening much national...
View ArticleRacial Inequality in America: NYC Hadar/Avi Schaefer Fund Symposium with...
by Rabbi Shai Held A Special Invitation to Jewschool Readers: Racial Inequality in America: Judaism, Human Equality, and the Quest for Justice January 11, 2015 Fifty years ago, Rabbi Abraham Joshua...
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Hanukah Hookup Caption Contest
Just because its Hanukah, it don’t mean we can’t have a bit of good natured fun. Give us your best caption for this picture of… we’re not sure what… Editorial Board will award the author of the...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Inspired, Intro. to Judaism Class in Chicago
Chicago Jewschoolers, take note! Jewschool Senior Editor Aryeh Bernstein is moving back to Chicago and will be teaching a beginners Judaism class for the Mishkan community. Registration just opened....
View ArticleMoving to the Ancestral Homeland (Chicago); Leaving the Holy Land...
This week, after 14 years living in Israel, where I never intended to leave, I’m moving back to my ancestral homeland of the South Side of Chicago, where, among other things, I’m excited to be...
View ArticleThe Scouts as Stubborn, Old Guard Leaders: The Torah's Warning Tale
This week’s parashah (Shelach-Lekha; Bemidbar 13-15) focuses on the second of the Israelites’ two most devastating moments of collective failure in the desert — the mass rebellion and breakdown after...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: On Slippery Language and "Independent" Jews
Over here at Jewschool, we’ve been all about the Indy-Jews for our whole decade-plus life span. We have spill much ink explaining the independent orientation to others who don’t share it. Today’s...
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In Defense of the Local
The Jewish Literary Salon in Krakow, Poland - one of the many complex Jewish projects in contemporary Poland In Dan Sieradski’s recent web project 31 Days, 31 Ideas, cartoonist and rootsman thinker Eli...
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Subscribe to the best of lefty Jewish news and opinion
We’ve launched a semi-weekly newsletter to send the best of Jewschool’s lefty Jewish news and opinion right to your inbox. Click here to join! The post Subscribe to the best of lefty Jewish news and...
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Jewschool’s Top Ten Posts from 2015
It’s been nearly a year since we relaunched — a new site, new contributors, and a new mission. Since then, Jewschool’s community supported dozens of grassroots social justice efforts within American...
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Jewschool almost died
Jewschool was born in 2002 as a hub of diverse and iconoclastic perspectives. Together, these disparate voices transformed themselves into a network for change. Debates unwelcome or even unheard of in...
View ArticleUp on Jewschool: Zionism films, antiracism trainings, and social justice jobs
New March events posted to the calendar: March 7: Applications due for Achvat Amim-Solidarity of Nations March 10-11: Encounter’s Trip to Bethlehem for Jewish Leaders March 11: Colliding Dreams...
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New events in DC, LA, and Israel: Passover with Asylum Seekers in Israel
Check out these newly-posted events and more in Jewschool’s community events calendar. DC’s Third Annual Refugee Seder Apr 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Moishe House DC, 1453 Harvard St NW Washington, DC...
View ArticleInterview: Who's Behind Treyf Podcast?
Last July, two leftist Jews had a debateably Jewish idea: a podcast about Jewish media and politics out of Canada. Sam Bick and David Zinman launched Treyf Podcast and have since produced over 15...
View ArticleGoodbye 5776 — Hello to a new year of Jewish activism
The editorial board and contributors at Jewschool wish everyone meaningful Yom Kippur. Goodbye, 5776. And hello to 5777, a new year of progressive Jewish activism and opinion. The post Goodbye 5776 —...
View ArticleThe Resilience of Peace Activism in Dark Times
The next four years appear bleak for the many American Jews who had hoped for closure on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under the Obama administration. Expectations for any sort of progress toward...
View ArticleJewschool Endorses the Women's March on Washington
As Jews and as Americans, we have looked on in dismay as immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ people, Native people, Black and Brown people, women, and people with disabilities have been vilified, threatened,...
View ArticleRemembering 103 Years of Jessie Zel Lurie
Jessie Zel Lurie began his interview with Aliza Becker for the American Jewish Peace Archive with these words: “I am 101 years old. I still write a column for The Jewish Journal of South Florida. We...
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