When the 20-point ceasefire plan was issued last year, we noted that "the plan itself is only as good as the words and actions of the actors who need to implement it" and warned that Netanyahu "has a reputation for sabotaging deals". Here we are. theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🔥✨ See you THIS Sunday in Los Angeles and over Zoom for the next event in our series on Jews and power -- with R Chaim Seidler-Feller, @irmiklat.bsky.social, & @alona-weimer.bsky.social! In-person registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/los-angele... Zoom registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔥✨ See you THIS Sunday in Los Angeles and over Zoom for the next event in our series on Jews and power -- with R Chaim Seidler-Feller, @irmiklat.bsky.social, & @alona-weimer.bsky.social! In-person registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/los-angele... Zoom registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

UPDATE: food will be from Bibi's Bakery & Cafe! Please sign up on the Eventbrite to help us estimate quantities 😄

UPDATE: food will be from Bibi's Bakery & Cafe! Please sign up on the Eventbrite to help us estimate quantities 😄

✨📖 Join us in LA on Sunday 5/31! - R Chaim Seidler-Feller: "Power, Morality & the Future of Zionism" - R Aryeh Cohen: "The Powerlessness of Power in the Thought of R Aharon Shmuel Tamares" - Alona Weimer: "Reckoning with Repair: Reparations Frameworks in Rabbinic Thought" RSVP links below!

Recording now up! This was a fun one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed6z...

Recording is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHgC...

Recording here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=58qy...

✨📖 Join us in LA on Sunday 5/31! - R Chaim Seidler-Feller: "Power, Morality & the Future of Zionism" - R Aryeh Cohen: "The Powerlessness of Power in the Thought of R Aharon Shmuel Tamares" - Alona Weimer: "Reckoning with Repair: Reparations Frameworks in Rabbinic Thought" RSVP links below!

🔥 LOS ANGELES: join us on Sunday 5/31 -- learn from Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, and Alona Weimer! In-person registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/los-angele... Zoom registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

DC -- Can't wait to see you Sunday! We'll be serving light lunch from David Chu's. Shiur topics in thread 🧵🔽

DC -- Can't wait to see you Sunday! We'll be serving light lunch from David Chu's. Shiur topics in thread 🧵🔽

This is one of the most horrific reports I have read in a long time. And yet we cannot look away. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Today!!!!

Two years ago, I wrote this Dvar Torah on Behar for @halachicleft.org - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

PHILLY: THIS SUNDAY! Don't forget to sign up! (in-person sign-ups are especially helpful for estimating food quantities!)

Washington, DC: can't wait to learn with you next Sunday (5/17)! In-person registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/dc-jewish-... Zoom registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

can't wait for episode 2 where Noa Tishby explains that Judaism is basically just supporting whatever the Israeli government does

Must-read from @halachicleft.org member Ami Dube about why so many NYC Jews oppose buffer zone legislation and want @council.nyc.gov to uphold @mayor.nyc.gov’s veto of 175B!

An Orthodox Jewish Hunter College student is grateful @mayor.nyc.gov vetoed the school buffer bill. Our very own Ami Dube writes in @forward.com: freedom shouldn't be sacrificed in the name of Jewish safety. forward.com/opinion/8222...

Maybe the problem isn't the messaging team. Maybe it's the thing being messaged.

'People Have the Right to Be Buried': In Gaza, Thousands of Palestinians Remain Trapped Under Rubble www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-04...

At this point, the Jewish state will actively prevent you from practicing your Judaism, if you are the "wrong kind of Jew." www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/m...

🔥 PHILADELPHIA (and everyone else)! Our Jewish Reckoning with Power learning series continues in Philly on Sunday, May 10, 5-9pm at the Old Pine Community Center and via Zoom. In-person registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/jewish-rec... Zoom registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔥 PHILADELPHIA (and everyone else)! Our Jewish Reckoning with Power learning series continues in Philly on Sunday, May 10, 5-9pm at the Old Pine Community Center and via Zoom. In-person registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/jewish-rec... Zoom registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

TODAY 4/20 at 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT: Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle co-host the 21st annual Joint Memorial Day Ceremony. A profound alternative to division and despair, proving that even in times of deep suffering, solidarity is not only possible but imperative. buff.ly/AY4MRgv

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at risk in Israeli jails as he faces ‘escalating abuse’

👀 Also here @bradlander.bsky.social casually dropping a bimheira v'yameinu in his statement...

Shot: forward.com/brad-lander-... Chaser: jewishinsider.com/2026/04/j-st...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “War, in and of itself, has become indivisible from Gaza: It’s in the landscape, in the harsh conditions that make up our days, in our bodies,” Ghada Abdulfattah writes. “The war does not feel finished. It continues to live within us. We can’t escape it.”

Had a chance to print it out before the chag and really appreciated reading it! Definitely recommend -

very happy to have received this before seder tonight this is really thoughtful work

This is delusional, and reflects a level of disconnection from knowledge about internal American political debates that actually explains some of Israel's behavior over the past few years. The Iran War is going to harm Israel's standing in the US, on right and left, like nothing else ever has.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

סַנְהֶדְרִין הַהוֹרֶגֶת אֶחָד בְּשָׁבוּעַ נִקְרֵאת חָבְלָנִית. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר, אֶחָד לְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה "A Sanhedrin that executes a transgressor once in 7 years is a destructive tribunal. R Elazar ben Azarya says: once in 70 years." -- Mishnah Makkot 1:10

The death penalty but it only applies to one ethnic group in the seperate courts you’ve set up to try them in www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Posting a different print format for the Halachic Left Pesach reader. In this version, my article is on page 20: drive.google.com/file/d/1MfyP...

🔥 Our 5786 Pesach reader, “כי ישאלך בנך מחר” / “When Your Child Asks You in Days to Come” is now available! Download on our website (which includes different options for printing): halachicleft.org/torah

I ordered one!

🔥 Our 5786 Pesach reader, “כי ישאלך בנך מחר” / “When Your Child Asks You in Days to Come” is now available! Download on our website (which includes different options for printing): halachicleft.org/torah

Thanks for having us @motownrabbi.bsky.social ! Not every day you meet a mutual at Chavura. ☺️

The @halachicleft.org Pesach reader is here! My piece combining Nahmanides on the meaning of the exodus with James Baldwin begins on page 27: drive.google.com/file/d/15mDg...

The pogroms happening against Palestinians feel like an onslaught, but don't get desensitized. (Content warning for graphic descriptions of violence, including sexual violence.) Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/w...

Im Yirtzeh Hashem, I’ll also be presenting on it this Sunday in Ann Arbor. Private message me if you may be able to make it and would like the info.

Parenthetically, Im Yirtzeh Hashem (Inshallah, to those unfamiliar with this Jewish phrase), I have Pesach Torah on this expectation and Baldwin’s anti-Semitism essay in @halachicleft.org ‘s forthcoming Pesach reader.

This was awesome today, so glad I got to attend

TODAY!!!! Starting in about 90 minutes -- register for the Zoom if you haven't yet! Or if you're in Boston/Cambridge, come in person! We'll have Veggie Crust 😄

"... We’ll demonstrate that this argument is wrong textually and shallow philosophically, and seek to lay the groundwork for a more accurate and serious Jewish conversation about how our religious obligations intersect with our secular citizenship."

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper's shiur: "A Halakhic Perspective on Ethically Motivated Civil Disobedience" "The halakhic principle dina demalkhuta dina is often cited as meaning that Jews are obligated to obey 'the law of the land.' That appears to rule out civil disobedience as a Jewish political tactic..."