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Halachic Left is changing the conversation about Israel/Palestine in halachically observant Jewish communities
A LETTER TO MODERN ORTHODOX AMERICA by Sam Stein "I keep praying, hoping, and begging that the pain of a relative or former student or classmate will make you realize the pain and humanity of Palestinians. It has not worked yet, and it feels completely naive..."
A Letter To Modern Orthodox America
I do not want to broadcast my brief. But you have made it necessary.
samstein.substack.com
📖 Pre-order printed copies of our 5787 Tishrei reader! 🍎🍯🐏🍋🌿🌴🕺💃 $15/copy + shipping to US addresses (We are still releasing it online for free if you want to print it yourself!) www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... Why pre-order? ... 🧵
Recordings now up on our YouTube! 🧵
Halachic Left@halachicleft.org · 2w agoFor our third year, we'll be having online programming on the afternoon of 9 Av, including a Gemara shiur from @motownrabbi.bsky.social & a screening of the Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest, with a pre-film shiur by R Lexie Botzum & post-film community discussion RSVP here: bit.ly/hl-9av-5786
🧵 R Zach Truboff on 9 Av: "The villains of the day are not Babylon & not Rome…Instead, Eichah & the kinot insist, over and over, that we brought this upon ourselves…It is not a day dedicated to seeing ourselves as victims, though some may see it that way, but rather as responsible for our history…"
Halachic Left proudly presents this collection of reflections on selected kinnot commonly recited on Tisha B’Av (in the Ashkenaz tradition)... drive.google.com/file/d/1BI_m...
For our third year, we'll be having online programming on the afternoon of 9 Av, including a Gemara shiur from @motownrabbi.bsky.social & a screening of the Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest, with a pre-film shiur by R Lexie Botzum & post-film community discussion RSVP here: bit.ly/hl-9av-5786
“The Torah was so thin... you were throwing in a little Torah to sprinkle it on what was basically your ethnonationalist political agenda.” — @peterbeinart.bsky.social on divrei Torah against @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Full recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw4g...
“If you were a really wise American Jewish leader, you might say—the person who’s going to save Zionism is Marwan Barghouti.” At our event last week, @peterbeinart.bsky.social asks what could push the US Jewish establishment toward a fallback position. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw4g...
@peterbeinart.bsky.social at our event last week on dominant groups equating equality with their own destruction: "It was considered at least as obvious among white South Africans as it was among Israeli and other Jews, if you had a Black government...that white people would basically be murdered."
@peterbeinart.bsky.social at our event last Thursday on a coming wave of right-wing antisemitism: “There is a lot to worry about, about the way that this right-wing discourse about Israel is going to shape the discourse about Haredim and ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States…”
@peterbeinart.bsky.social at our event last Thursday on a coming wave of right-wing antisemitism: “There is a lot to worry about, about the way that this right-wing discourse about Israel is going to shape the discourse about Haredim and ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States…”
Recording here! 🔥🔥🔥 There are timestamps in the YouTube description for the different questions/topics discussed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw4g...
An Evening with Peter Beinart | July 9, 2026 | Halachic Left
YouTube video by Halachic Left
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Halachic Left@halachicleft.org · 4w agoThank you to everyone who came out last night to our Q&A event with @peterbeinart.bsky.social! Recording will be up by motzash 🔥 Some of the many topics discussed... 🧵
Thank you to everyone who came out last night to our Q&A event with @peterbeinart.bsky.social! Recording will be up by motzash 🔥 Some of the many topics discussed... 🧵
Halachic Left@halachicleft.org · last mo.🗽 NYC: Join us next Thursday on the UWS for nosh and conversation with journalist, author, and first-ever HL speaker @peterbeinart.bsky.social! We’ll talk about the Jewish tent, new Jewish institutions, and where we go from here. RSVP here: forms.gle/DVpKBN3iCHUt...
Israeli medical human rights group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel: Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been held in Israel's Ofer Prison– without charge - for over a year, faces immediate risk of death. Calls for his immediate release.
Our Tisha B'Av schedule is here! Shiurim with @motownrabbi.bsky.social and Rabbi Lexie Botzum, followed by a screening of the critically acclaimed 2023 film The Zone of Interest and a post-film discussion! Register at bit.ly/hl-9av-5786
🗽 NYC: Join us next Thursday on the UWS for nosh and conversation with journalist, author, and first-ever HL speaker @peterbeinart.bsky.social! We’ll talk about the Jewish tent, new Jewish institutions, and where we go from here. RSVP here: forms.gle/DVpKBN3iCHUt...
Our Tisha B'Av schedule is here! Shiurim with @motownrabbi.bsky.social and Rabbi Lexie Botzum, followed by a screening of the critically acclaimed 2023 film The Zone of Interest and a post-film discussion! Register at bit.ly/hl-9av-5786
"Your efforts to define them, and me, outside the Jewish community, are dangerously short-sighted. Jews are not made safer by proscribing a particular vision of Israel as the price of full belonging." forward.com/opinion/8355...
My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future
Elliot Cosgrove says I’m doomed politically as a Jew who seeks a new path for Israel. I invite him to join me in reckoning with our shared spiritual challenge.
forward.com
"The future you imagine presumes that the greatest danger facing Jewish life is that Jews will leave Zionism. But it seems to me the real danger is that young Jews will conclude there is no room...inside Jewish institutions unless they silence their conscience." - @bradlander.bsky.social 💯
My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future
Elliot Cosgrove says I’m doomed politically as a Jew who seeks a new path for Israel. I invite him to join me in reckoning with our shared spiritual challenge.
forward.com
🗽 NYC: Join us next Thursday on the UWS for nosh and conversation with journalist, author, and first-ever HL speaker @peterbeinart.bsky.social! We’ll talk about the Jewish tent, new Jewish institutions, and where we go from here. RSVP here: forms.gle/DVpKBN3iCHUt...
A deeply reported @haaretzcom.bsky.social investigation into the re-establishment of settlements in the Shomron that were evacuated during the 2005 disengagement: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Undoing History • As the world watched Gaza, Israeli settlers charged ahead in the West Bank. A clash with Palestinians is imminent
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haaretz.com
"Every time I go to shul, I bow to objects I consider to be idols. Like Jeroboam’s golden calves, there are two of them, except these are both in the same locale. They are set up right next to the aron kodesh, so that there is no good way to avoid bowing towards them..."
"Deporting Jewish activists who visit the West Bank to engage in protective presence used to be unthinkable. But since October, five Jews have been deported for participating in Israeli- & Jewish-led solidarity initiatives." (gift link) www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
Why does the Jewish state keep deporting Diaspora Jews? | Opinion
Deporting Jewish Activists Who Visit the West Bank to Engage in Protective Presence Used to Be Unthinkable. But Since October, Five Jews Have Been Deported for Participating in Israeli- and Jewish-led...
haaretz.com