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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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Hosting with the Shabbat Haggadah
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Join us for Hosting with the Shabbat Haggadah, a live class on using ACJ's monthly Shabbat guide to bring people together around your table.
We'll walk through the blessings, talk through the questions hosts run into (What about the Hebrew? What if my guests have very different backgrounds? What if I'm the least experienced person there?), and help you plan your own Shabbat meal.
No experience or Hebrew required. You'll leave with a worksheet, a marked-up guide, and a plan.
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