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Rabbi Brant

@brant-rosen.bsky.social

Rabbi at Tzedek Chicago, co-founder of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, tzedekchicago.org, rabbibrant.com

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Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon@eliungar.bsky.social · last yr.

Rabbi @brant-rosen.bsky.social is showing real leadership in this trying moment. What I can’t quite wrap my head around is: Where are his colleagues? How can intelligent, otherwise morally-minded people continue to carry water for the State of Israel in 2025? rabbibrant.com/2025/06/04/i...

Israel is Burning the Children of Gaza: How Will We Respond?

Five-year-old Ward Jalal al-Sheikh Khalil, trying to escape a burning classroom at the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City, May 26, 2025 Warning: this post contains descriptions of extreme violenc…

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · last yr.

“There is every indication that Israel is beginning the process of engineering the wholesale destruction of Gaza – and the Palestinians who live there – by any means necessary.” rabbibrant.com/2025/05/09/t...

The Nakba Unfolds in Gaza as the World Watches

(phot: Haitham Imad/EPA) In December 2023, just three months into Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Tzedek Chicago’s board released a public statement entitled, “In Gaza, Israel is Revealing the True Face…

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · last yr.

With Passover starting Saturday evening, April 12, Tzedek Chicago is honored to present our annual seder supplement, “Passover as Collective Liberation.” rabbibrant.com/2025/04/04/t...

Tzedek Chicago’s New Seder Supplement: “Passover as Collective Liberation”

With Passover starting Saturday evening, April 12, Tzedek Chicago is honored to present our annual seder supplement, “Passover as Collective Liberation.” As we witness fascism growing in the US and…

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Maya Schenwar@mayaschenwar.bsky.social · last yr.

“There is hope in the struggle… organizing is all about relationships, and that’s how communities are built, and that’s where the hope for me resides.” - @brant-rosen.bsky.social in this great interview with @edgeofsports.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/WUe6NAMn8fTB...

The New Generation of Rabbi SuperHeroes

This week, we speak to Rabbi Brant Rosen of the Tzedek Chicago Synagogue, a synagogue that claims anti-Zionism as a core tenet of their beliefs. We talk about this perilous moment when an antisemitic

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · last yr.

“I’ll make it plain: collaborationist Jews will not help make Jews safer. Even more important, collaborating with fascism will not make anyone safer. It feels somehow ridiculous to have to say these words out loud, but here we are.” rabbibrant.com/2025/03/12/f...

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil

photo: Mary Altaffer/AP Yesterday I received a DM that read: “Evil, kapo, judenrat, self hating Jew.” (If you don’t know the meaning of some of those words, let’s just say that two of them are hist…

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Religion Dispatches@religiondispatches.org · 2y ago

"Can Jews who believe Israel is committing genocide coexist in community with those who are actively supporting it?" asks @brant-rosen.bsky.social. "If Jewish ethical values are the bedrock of our spiritual life, how do we truly bridge such a massive moral divide?" ow.ly/hpzp50V3AsN

Peter Beinart's 'Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza' Expertly Dismantles Pro-Israel Propaganda — But Does it Adequately Reckon with the Genocide?

The ambitious intentions of Peter Beinart’s new book are evident from the title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Responding to the current moment, Beinart has written nothing ...

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Peter Beinart's new book expertly dismantles Israeli hasbara, but does it adequately reckon with the moral abyss in the Jewish community over Israel's genocide? religiondispatches.org/peter-beinar...

Peter Beinart's 'Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza' Expertly Dismantles Pro-Israel Propaganda — But Does it Adequately Reckon with the Genocide?

The ambitious intentions of Peter Beinart’s new book are evident from the title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Responding to the current moment, Beinart has written nothing ...

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

“I personally believe that national mythologies should not be literal oaths to be sworn to, but collective narratives to be interrogated deeply.” rabbibrant.com/2025/02/14/s...

Standing at Sinai: Interrogating our National Myths of Unity

In the week’s Torah portion, Parashat Yitro, the Israelites stand at Mt. Sinai and collectively enter into a covenant with God. With a message conveyed through Moses, God says to the people: “(If) …

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

“It should go without saying, but I’ll say it out loud: it is appalling and sickening that a prominent synagogue welcomed – and in fact celebrated – a genocidal war criminal in their house of worship.” rabbibrant.com/2025/02/07/p...

Palestine Solidarity from the Streets to the Statehouse

From my Yom Kippur sermon this past October: (There) are plenty of Jewish congregations out there: why does the world need another? What do we have that’s unique to offer? As I think about it, this…

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

“This just what Trump and his movement wants: They want us to feel breathless, paralyzed, despairing. We must not succumb. We must not accept that breathlessness is the new existential normal of our political age.” rabbibrant.com/2025/01/24/l...

Learning How to Breathe in the Era of Trump

(photo: Carl Juste/AP) In this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Va’era, God’s tells Moses to return to Mitzrayim and say to the Israelites: “I am יהוה. I will free you from the labors of the Egyptian…

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

I offer some thoughts on yesterday's inauguration festivities, with a little assistance from a 1st century BCE rabbi: rabbibrant.com/2025/01/21/i...

Inauguration Day 2025: “Love Work, Hate Authority and Don’t Cozy Up to the Government”

(Rabbi) Shemiah said, “Love work. Hate authority. Don’t get too friendly with the government.” Pirke Avot, 1:10 (translation, Jacob Neusner). This classical rabbinic saying comes from “Chapters of …

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Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Let us have no illusions about the designs of all Pharoahs past and present. Like the Israelites in our Torah portion, the Palestinian people continue to cry out for liberation. Let us continue to heed their call.” rabbibrant.com/2025/01/17/t...

The Gaza Ceasefire: Pharoah is Still Pharoah

Benyamin Netanyahu and Steve Witkoff, January 11, 2025 My weekly email to Tzedek Chicago members: For Palestinians and those who stand in solidarity with them, the news of a ceasefire agreement bet…

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some PhD student is going to write a terrific dissertation someday on how Trump's immigration ban and deportation policy will collide with the massive demand for construction labor in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.

Rabbi Brant@brant-rosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

“While Liberal Zionist mythology attributes the curse of Shimon and Levi to “bad apple” Zionists, this kind of systemic, unrestrained violence has been central to the Zionist project from its very beginning.” rabbibrant.com/2025/01/10/y...

Yitzhak Rabin and the Violent Legacy of Shimon and Levi

The Lyyda Death March, July 1948 My weekly email to Tzedek Chicago members: The centerpiece of this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Vayechi, is Jacob’s final soliloquy to his individual sons: a Bibli…

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