Jewish Currents

Roth Versus The Rabbis

May 23, 2018Josh Lambert

“It was presumptuous of you, Rabbi Rackman, to speak of yourself to me as ‘a leader of his people.’ You are not my leader and I can only thank God for it.”

Hitchhikers

May 22, 2018Moriel Rothman-Zecher

An excerpt from the novel SADNESS IS A WHITE BIRD by Moriel Rothman-Zecher.

Keep Looking Until You Find It

May 24, 2018Maia Ipp

A surprising encounter with the Book of Ruth at a participatory art ritual in New York.

Intersectionality Is Not a Reason for Jews to Leave Our Movements

May 22, 2018Sarah Seltzer

The issue with intersectional discourse for many Jews, especially those with economic and skin color privilege, is that it requires us to take a tough look at how some Jews at home and abroad have become oppressors, or enablers of oppression.