For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the Jewish Museum's Paul Klee exhibit, the angel of history getting held up in Jerusalem, and the vexed relationship between critique and aesthetic veneration in our present moment of danger. jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...
The Absent Angel
A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
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This is an unintentionally precise analogy: Black Lives Matter was a widespread, popular movement that was deliberately demobilized by centrist Democrats and then repressed by Trump in a reactionary backlash. In other words, what a liberal calls “ephemeral cultural opposition.”
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3mo agoI genuinely believe a lot of people do hate in the same vague way everyone decided to hate racism in 2020. AI is deeply uncool. I just think that history indicates that you can’t lean too hard on this kind of ephemeral cultural opposition to something, which may not portend any kind of sea change.
Trying to figure out what this guy thinks the trolley problem is.
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the obligation to rebuke and the Marxist critique of moralism. jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...
For Jewish Currents, I wrote a short Pesah reflection about selling out, the slide from counter-culture to counter-revolution, and what happens after the Exodus. jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/s...
Featuring essays from @raphaelmagarik.bsky.social, @mhughesrob.bsky.social, Liana Wertman, @motownrabbi.bsky.social, Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein, Amit Gvaryahu, and Maya Rosen, and illustrations by Yavni Bar-Yam.
I and others were asked by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for Haggadah recommendations; here was my slightly curmudgeonly answer.
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I write about Brecht, Vivian Gornick, the menorah, the labor theory of value, and commodity fetishism: jewishcurrents.org/parshah/febr...
Delightful little story about visiting the Holy Land from the anti-Zionist Hasidic Rebbe of Munkacz.
