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Location and Identity: Isn’t It Time? 2

Re-reading Exodus for 2023 and the Passover season ahead continues with a look at location and its relationship to identity for individuals and groups.

Posted byvspatzFebruary 24, 2023Posted inblog, Isn't It TimeTags:Exodus, Kathryn Howell, Social LocationLeave a comment on Location and Identity: Isn’t It Time? 2

Isn’t It Time?

Stylized map of DC, highlighting rivers with text: Isn't It Time? Rereading Exodus along the Anacostia: Engaging the age-old Exodus story, and our own, to inspire change where we are right now.

Isn’t It Time? can be explored as Passover prep, or for any season; on its own or as supplement to Rereading Exodus along the Anacostia.

Posted byvspatzFebruary 6, 2023February 7, 2023Posted inblogTags:Displacement, Exodus, Gentrification, Passover, Racism, Washington DCLeave a comment on Isn’t It Time?

Facing Consequences: Baldwin and Maimonides

LEFT: James Baldwin seated, with his arms resting on his knees, burning cigarette in his left hand; typewriter visible behind his shoulder; curtained window (maybe hotel room); RIGHT: portrait of Maimonides wearing, with mustache and beard, in turban and robe, with medallion on ribbon around his neck.

Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed and James Baldwin’s work have a lot to say about “faces” and “vision,” with a surprising amount in common.

Posted byvspatzJanuary 12, 2023January 29, 2023Posted inblog, Faces and VoicesTags:As Much Truth As One Can Bear, Faces, Guide for the Perplexed, James Baldwin, MaimonidesLeave a comment on Facing Consequences: Baldwin and Maimonides

Facets: Teaching and Deciding

Abstracted image of two-pan balance atop two large books with gavel nearby.

“Talking Talmud” discusses teaching and law-making in context of Rabbi Meir’s ability to see many facets of an issue.

Posted byvspatzJanuary 3, 2023February 7, 2023Posted inblog, Faces and VoicesTags:Anne Gordon, Rabbi Meir, Talking Talmud, Yardaena OsbandLeave a comment on Facets: Teaching and Deciding

Faces: Shown, Turned, Supplied

Three images: clear solid of 20 faces; five emoji faces; neural network

What is the effect on an individual scholar, and on a community, of following R’ Meir’s endless facets example?

Posted byvspatzDecember 27, 2022January 3, 2023Posted inblog, Faces and VoicesTags:Eruvin 13b, mareh lo panim, Rabbi MeirLeave a comment on Faces: Shown, Turned, Supplied

Faces and Voices

Is there a limit to how many or which faces of Torah are considered? If so, what are the criteria to consider?

Posted byvspatzDecember 25, 2022February 27, 2023Posted inblog, Faces and VoicesTags:Heavenly Torah, Rabbi Meir, SvaraLeave a comment on Faces and Voices

Book Talk with Tzedek Chicago

Thanks to Tzedek Chicago for the terrific conversation about Rereading Exodus along the Anacostia, May 11, 2022. Transcript, slightly edited from auto-generated captions provided by Zoom.

Posted byvspatzMay 12, 2022Posted inblogTags:Anacostia, Charnice Milton Community Bookstore, Exodus, Tzedek ChicagoLeave a comment on Book Talk with Tzedek Chicago

Omer on the Anacostia

It’s always time to move toward greater liberation for all.

Posted byvspatzMay 6, 2022Posted inblogTags:Hill Havurah, Omer on the Anacostia, racial justiceLeave a comment on Omer on the Anacostia

Rereading with Tzedek Chicago

Tzedek Chicago members and friends gather on May 11 to discuss Rereading Exodus Along the Anacostia. Join us.

Posted byvspatzMay 6, 2022Posted inblogTags:Exodus, Hill Havurah, intergroup dialogue, Omer, Tzedek ChicagoLeave a comment on Rereading with Tzedek Chicago

Join in Rereading Exodus Along the Anacostia

This Spring, Charnice Milton Community Bookstore and We Act Radio are launching reading and conversation with the aim of understanding the workings of oppression and our part in them.

Posted byvspatzMarch 30, 2022April 14, 2022Posted inblogTags:Charnice Milton Community Bookstore, Exodus, Omer, Passover, Rereading Exodus, WE Act RadioLeave a comment on Join in Rereading Exodus Along the Anacostia

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