Do ‘Rabbis for Human Rights’ protect Palestinians or the Jewish State?
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. With world having its fill of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Holocaust...
View ArticleLiving and dying by Netanyahu’s ‘forever’ sword
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. This week I was invited to speak in Bethlehem at a conference...
View ArticlePermanently ghettoizing the Palestinian people is Yitzhak Rabin’s true legacy
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. On the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister...
View ArticleWill Israel’s policies fail of their own accord?
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. With another New Year approaching and no positive movement on the...
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The (Jewish) Civil War Heats Up. Sort of.
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. The Knesset anti-BDS solutions are becoming more and more bizarre....
View ArticleMethodist divestment highlights Israel’s place in the world
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. It takes one’s breath away. How far Israel has fallen. But it isn’t...
View ArticlePope Francis’s missed opportunity to speak the truth
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. On Sunday, Pope Francis traveled across town to visit Rome’s...
View ArticleWhen the language of genocide offends us more than ghettoizing another people
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. These last days have seen commentary after commentary about the...
View ArticleJewless Holocaust. Israel first.
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Who would have thought the Holocaust would become a central issue in...
View ArticlePassover in the era of permanent Jewish occupation
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. As Passover arrives once again, the occupation continues, fifty years...
View ArticleThe Mennonites and the interfaith ecumenical deal
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. On Thursday, the Mennonites passed a historic BDS resolution (PDF)...
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Rabbi Rosen’s final mourning
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. What to do with a rabbi who, for the upcoming Tisha B’Av. a Jewish...
View ArticleOn Tisha B’Av, we must mourn our complicity
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Tisha B’Av is upon us, a fast day for Jews, commemorating the...
View ArticleOn Charlottesville and Jewish memory
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Charlottesville and White nationalism have brought the issue of...
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If the occupation is permanent, is an ethical Jewish future possible?
The following lecture was given on October 24, 2017 at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Marc Ellis’s book Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation. To read...
View ArticleTrump’s Hanukkah gift
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. During Hanukkah we typically think Festival of Lights and the...
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