We’re looking forward to hosting a Q&A with Prof. Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University on Sunday, January 25th at 1pm EST. Register and submit questions here: bit.ly/hl-bartov

We’re looking forward to hosting a Q&A with Prof. Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University on Sunday, January 25th at 1pm EST. Register and submit questions here: bit.ly/hl-bartov

Thanks to your support, we've raised about $2200! 💸 Can you help us get to $2520 (140 chai)? We appreciate donations of any size via Venmo (@HalachicLeft) or Paypal (www.paypal.com/donate/?host...)

Thanks to your support, we've raised about $2200! 💸 Can you help us get to $2520 (140 chai)? We appreciate donations of any size via Venmo (@HalachicLeft) or Paypal (www.paypal.com/donate/?host...)

🔥 Help us go into 2026 strong! Donate to our year-end fundraising drive via PayPal at bit.ly/hl-2025 or via Venmo @HalachicLeft!

🧵 PART 3 of 2025 highlights for Halachic Left Donate to our year-end fundraising campaign at bit.ly/hl-2025 or via Venmo @HalachicLeft

🧵 PART 2 of 2025 highlights for Halachic Left

🔥 Help us go into 2026 strong! Donate to our year-end fundraising drive at bit.ly/hl-2025! 💸

🧵 2025 HIGHLIGHTS Enjoy a few highlights (more coming soon) and let us know your favorite project/event of ours this year!

🧵 2025 HIGHLIGHTS Enjoy a few highlights (more coming soon) and let us know your favorite project/event of ours this year!

🔥🕎 Thank you to all in the Cambridge/Boston area who came out last week to hear Shaul Magid's Chanukah shiur and to help raise money for Legal Aid for Palestinians (LEAP)! 💸

🔥 Thank you to Miko Zeldes-Roth @mikozr.bsky.social who taught at our event with @newisraelfund.bsky.social NIF NewGen on Tuesday night, "Celebrating Chanukah Beyond Jewish Supremacy" -- and to everyone in Chicago who came out! Chanukah sameach! 🕎

🔥🕎🍩 Thank you to everyone who came out Tuesday night or joined us over Zoom to hear @motownrabbi.bsky.social's shiur for Chanukah! You can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox0m... Happy eighth night!

If you can’t make it in person you can still participate over Zoom.

New Yorkers: Tomorrow night I’ll be giving a shiur on the UWS for @halachicleft.org on the song “Mi Yimalel” and how it denies traditional Jewish beliefs and the Rabbinic conception of Chanukah. We will also explore traditional Jewish texts suggesting non-violent understandings of Gevurah/power.

"[The Vilna Gaon] notes that every major event in Jewish history repeats on a constant cycle for every generation...Our generation is struggling with the contemporary version of the Hannukah struggle as Hellenistic militarism has spread far and wide." yaaqovshenkin.substack.com/p/a-time-for...

Wisdom from my friend Becca Levis on another shattering day

Jewish groups are circulating the hebrew names of the injured for the traditional prayers for healing. Just got sent these: * Reuven Ben Manya * Chaya Mushka bas Shterna Sara * Feivel Eliezer ben Dobra Bella * Arsan ben Amelia * Yaakov Dov ben Pnina * Yaakov ben Ethel * Moshe Yonatan ben Tziporah

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, murdered in the attack in Australia, had been learning with a man in prison for several months. Last week he was released, & R' Schlanger wrote this beautiful post celebrating it, including how it coincided w/ Yud-Tes Kislev (the release of the Alter Rebbe from prison)

🔥 CHICAGO: join us for Chanukah food and learning with Miko Zeldes-Roth! RSVP here: secure.nif.org/a/celebratin... Join NewGen Chicago and Halachic Left for a Chanukah gathering, where we will learn, eat (kosher) latkes, and light candles together.

Boston area people! Join us next Thursday, Dec. 18 (the fifth night of Chanukah) at 7pm for a fundraiser for Legal Aid for Palestinians (LEAP), an organization that provides legal support and representation for Palestinians living in the West Bank. secure.nif.org/a/darkness-l...

🔥🕎 Tuesday of next week (12/16) in NYC (Upper West Side) & over Zoom! Food/schmoozing starting at 6:30pm, shiur+Zoom starting at 7pm EST. Please RSVP here (especially important if you’re coming in person — we need to estimate how many latkes/donuts/sufganiyot we need 🥔🍩): bit.ly/hl-chanukah

Come to our Chanukah shiur⁩, either in-person in NYC (UWS) or over Zoom! 🔥🕎🍩 Tuesday 12/16, 6:30pm EST to arrive in person/schmooze, with shiur starting around 7:00pm Sign up here: bit.ly/hl-chanukah

Come to our Chanukah shiur⁩, either in-person in NYC (UWS) or over Zoom! 🔥🕎🍩 Tuesday 12/16, 6:30pm EST to arrive in person/schmooze, with shiur starting around 7:00pm Sign up here: bit.ly/hl-chanukah

Thank you to everyone who came out last week to hear Yoav Peck in conversation with our student moderator Ami Dube, in partnership with @jstreetu.bsky.social at Hunter College!

We're excited to announce that we've received a grant this upcoming year from the Jewish Liberation Fund! Through participatory grantmaking, grassroots donor organizing, and philanthropic transformation, JLF is building an alternative model for funding our social movements...

We're excited to announce that we've received a grant this upcoming year from the Jewish Liberation Fund! Through participatory grantmaking, grassroots donor organizing, and philanthropic transformation, JLF is building an alternative model for funding our social movements...

For our dvar Torah this week, Melvin Lewis writes on Parshas Vayeitzei: "As Yaakov fled, he wasn’t thinking about the possibilities that might lie before him. Only when he lets himself rest and dream does he connect with the holiness of his situation..."

For this week's dvar Torah, Rabbi Lexie Botzum asks, "Should we aspire to a love like Yitzchak has for Esav, or learn from it?" She writes, "Even when we self-consciously assume a critical stance, we’re all at risk of replicating the faults of the obliviously loving Yitzchak..."

"Jewish Peoplehood does not require political dominance to maintain its integrity. The challenge arises only when 'Jewish nationhood' is interpreted in modern statist terms—a framework that rabbinic literature itself does not mandate before the messianic era." blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-hareidi-...

A Mamdani canvassing volunteer writes of their experiences in the YU Commentator: “Mamdani’s election has been portrayed as a symbol of a changing political landscape and city. My experiences put me in touch with many who pushed these changes…” yucommentator.org/2025/11/canv...

Rabbi Jamie Weisbach in our dvar Torah for Lech Lecha this week: “The Malbim points out that the text emphasizes that Avraham went to save Lot, not his property, and was only motivated by the direct threat to Lot’s very life. Avraham’s motivations to go to war were good and even noble..."

Israeli authorities just issued demolition orders for 13 buildings in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair – including family homes and the community center. ✍️ Congress must speak out: Stop the demolitions and pressure the Trump Administration to act.

Whole podcast is worth listening to -- and thank you to @peterbeinart.bsky.social for giving our High Holiday reader a shout-out around 29 minutes in! (You can find links to our yamim noraim reader and all of our Torah publications here: halachicleft.org/torah)

An anti-Mamdani rabbis' letter was organized by The Jewish Majority, which is led by an AIPAC alum. But the letter was also signed by liberal rabbis, revealing how some are leaning when confronted with a choice between their progressivism and their Zionism. jewishcurrents.org/anti-mamdani...

"Two American Jewish women are facing deportation from Israel after joining interfaith groups for the olive harvest in the West Bank on Wednesday." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

My Halakhic argument against the starvation of Gaza: thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...

Scenes from an intensely joyful and painful Hoshanah Rabbah... 1/

Seeing such familiar names now being released seems utterly surreal. Just an incredible moment

Lishay’s last post before putting the girls to bed: “For two years now, every night we go out under the moon and say, "Good night, Daddy Omri," hoping he hears, hoping he feels. Today, for the last time. Tomorrow, Roni and Alma will say it to Daddy himself 🎗️ “ Credit: Ofir Berman

ברוך מתיר אסורים!

Einav's first call with Matan after two years Unbelievable

Breaking News: Israel said the Red Cross had custody of some of the hostages in Gaza who were to be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

Came out of Yom Kippur to this terrible news -- our hearts are with the UK Jewish community 💔❤️‍🩹

Ahead of Yom Kippur, we're sharing our Suggested Tzedakah page from our Yamim Noraim reader. We encourage you to donate to any of the following initiatives: Gaza Soup Kitchen: bit.ly/gaza-sk Umm Al-Kheir: bit.ly/umm-al-kheir Palestine Children's Relief Fund: bit.ly/pcrf-gaza

You can now download a half-page version of the pdf to print yourself a folded booklet. Duplex (two-sided) printers: drive.google.com/file/d/1kfHN... Non-duplex printers: drive.google.com/file/d/146Ot...

✨ "Ya'aleh Zikhroneinu," our essay collection for the High Holidays, is now live! Download and print it out to read over the chagim here: bit.ly/hl-reader-5786 ✨

✨ "Ya'aleh Zikhroneinu," our essay collection for the High Holidays, is now live! Download and print it out to read over the chagim here: bit.ly/hl-reader-5786 ✨

@khalilsayegh.bsky.social 's father died from lack of medical attention in December 2023 while taking shelter in a church in Gaza. If he can still retain his humanity--and insist upon the incalculable preciousness of all life--so can we

‼️ When the author of the book shows up to the Halachic Left Book Club meeting...! Thank you to Prof. Avi Shlaim for his surprise appearance at our Zoom discussion of his book "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew," and for graciously answering all of our questions!