The prophetic project of return — and what it must yet become.
For 3600 years, being Jewish at its core meant being accepted by a Jewish community. Not descent from a special family. Not lip service to a particular dogma. When Jewish society existed in Israel, many immigrants from Africa, Asia, and even Europe were accepted as full citizens. When Jewish society was forced to reconstitute in … Read more
“The Decline of the Generations” – a very brief intro to the main personalities of the Israeli settler movement, standing on one leg… The father: R. Abraham Isaac Kook was a visionary of peace, love, and light. He preached social unity and cultural revival, focusing heavily on the people of Israel’s ancient and intrinsic connection … Read more
I moved to Jerusalem 15 years ago. I’ve never thought once about moving back to the land of my birth. I love this land. This city. This country. I love the people(s) in it – Israelis, Palestinians, immigrants, sojourners. All of them. (Yes, all of the above sometimes frustrate me, irritate me, challenge me, even … Read more
“But Israel won’t be a Jewish state anymore!” Can you, a born Jew, even coherently define “Jewish” without contradicting yourself? No? Maybe we need to be able to do that first before we can have an actually Jewish state? Maybe a Jewish state that will keep Jewish people safe…… isn’t what you think it is? … Read more
A songAscending the heightsWith my love’s returnWith the settling of ZionWe were like dreamersOf green pathsAnd sweetened watersOf light and windEmpowered mindsGathered and spreadBetween river and seaOf silicon and woodForests draped upon hillsOf liquid flightOn gleaming railsThrough the wildernessOf telepaths and readersSpinning holographic visionsUnder the endless starsOf warm firesKept burning through the digital nightGlowing circuits … Read more
tl;dr Vote your conscience, vote your brain, vote for a party that is actually building a future for our children instead of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. === “Only the right-wing can keep us safe!” And they can’t even do that right? “You have to vote for a party that will definitely cross … Read more
An armed gang surrounds a family home, drunk on power and violence. The police and the army stand by, waiting for orders from a man who made his career organizing and supporting armed gangs, and was welcomed into the government by a man who made his career inciting people against each other. This, too, is … Read more
The FB algorithm grokked that I like teckmology so it dumped a low budget video from someone named lizthedeveloper into my feed… I watched it, so it dropped another one… And then another one… I’m becoming radicalized again at the end of my thirties, discovering new dimensions of my (already libertarian socialist, Ibreofuturist) Zionism: Solarpunk. … Read more
I’m the kind of Zionist who smiles every time I read the words “An Israeli team discovered…” in articles and posts across the internet……and wonders when the Palestinian members of those teams will get their recognition, as such. Yes, so much is made possible by the country of Israel……but, we lose nothing in honoring the … Read more
Arab = European From this Jew’s perspective… There really is no difference. Whether called yahud or jude, Jews across continents both absorbed the best (and sometimes the worst) of the culture of their exilic hosts – and faced centuries of discrimination and violence at their hands. Two true things at once. Humanity is a mix … Read more