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Optimism of the Will: Arielle Angel on 8 years of Jewish Currents
A conversation with Rabbi Andy Kahn on what eight years in the work has taught her, and what she wants us to know now.
After eight years as editor in chief of Jewish Currents, Arielle Angel has stepped down. Under her leadership, the magazine has become one of the most influential voices on the Jewish left, shaping how a generation thinks about Jewish life, Zionism, Palestine, and the failure of mainstream Jewish institutions.
This conversation is a chance to hear what she has learned as she has spent nearly a decade in the trenches of Jewish public life, writing and editing through Gaza 2014, the Trump years, October 7th and its aftermath, and the slow unraveling of American Jewish institutional consensus on Israel. She has highlighted both grief and rage without blunting either, and she has held to the conviction that honesty is itself a catalyst.
Rabbi Andy Kahn sits down with Arielle to ask what eight years in the work have taught her, and what she can teach us. We'll learn what she has come to know about hope, despair, the Jewish landscape now, and what she wants us to carry forward.
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Anti-Zionism: A Jewish Tradition Book Release Event
Join us for the book release event, in partnership with Jewish Currents, McNally-Jackson, and Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History by Benjamin Moser, in conversation with activist and writer Jasper Nathaniel. The two will discuss the history of Jewish Anti-Zionism, its current iterations, and what it means to actively involve yourself in this tradition today.
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Tashlich Guide 5787
The ritual of Tashlich—casting bread into water while reflecting on the wrongdoings of the previous year—is a potent, tangible way to reset and recommit for the year ahead.
This Tashlich guide uses the four worlds of Kabbalah, the layers of reality our ancient mystics saw as integral to human existence, to engage with different forms of wrongdoing. Each page of this guide invites you to reflect on one world of wrongdoing, providing a Kavanah (intention), an excerpt from the high holiday liturgy, a responsive reading (to be split between individuals or groups), and an invitation to cast off our wrongdoings in the past year.
This ritual can be done alone, with family, in a havurah, or with a large group any time during the 10 days of Teshuvah between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Zohare Jacobi on Jewish Magic Beyond Nationalism
On August 7th at 2pm Eastern, Rabbi Andy Kahn sits down with Zohare for a conversation about diaspora, magic, comparative religion, and what it means to teach Judaism rooted in scholarship and love when so many mainstream institutions have collapsed it into ahistorical nationalism.
Her shop, jewitches.com, carries ethically sourced ritual goods, herbs, books, and Judaica drawn from across the diaspora. Worth a browse before or after the conversation.
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