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“The Darkest Light”: Shlomo Carlebach, Between Reckoning and Legacy A Film by Simon Mendes
[This film review is free for all. For those who want to become paid subscribers to support this work, your modest contribution is much appreciated - Shaul]
If you are interested in showing in your area, please contact Simon Mendes
Shlomo...
“In Defense of Lost Causes”: Some Thoughts on the Reactions to Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Bund
[full disclosure: Molly and I did an event together, a public conversation about the book and other things, at The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA in May 2026. Some of these thoughts are born from that conversation]
Shaul’s Substack is...
"Reactionary Renewal": “Judaism,” the “Jews,” and a Note on Peoplehood
[This essay is free for all. For those who wish to become paid subscribers to support this work, your contribution if appreciated]
One summer during one the Gaza wars I got a call from a friend who was attending a Jewish Renewal/Aleph retr...
Reflections on Jewish “Authenticity” in Today’s World
(dedicated to Simcha Gross, because you asked)
It seems that the Jewish world today is raging. Every week some new event occurs that sets the public Jewish conversation into a tailspin. Inside the perpetual whirlwind there seems to be a se...
ASHERAH: A Harvard Divinity School Journal of Jewish Liturgy, Prayer, and Ritual
Why ASHERAH? And a drawing for a free copy!
This year we launched ASHERAH, a new HDS liturgy journal, the first journal devoted to Judaism in the long history of Harvard Divinity School. The Substack for ASHERAH can be found here.
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