Following Paris attacks the National Security State is passé, welcome to the...
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 New York Times is full of all the news fit to print this morning....
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Netanyahu’s honesty towards Palestinians casts unwelcome light on American...
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. In the closing hours of his political campaign, Benjamin Netanyahu...
View ArticleIn defense of Cornel West’s prophetic voice
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. I first met Cornel West almost thirty years ago when I was invited to...
View ArticleCharleston: Do Black and Palestinian lives matter?
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Do Black lives matter in America? After the murders in Charleston,...
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The challenge for Tzedek Chicago
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Rabbi Brant Rosen’s new congregational venture Tzedek Chicago...
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Naim Ateek’s moral arc of the universe
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. When we think of protest letters, Martin Luther King’s letter from a...
View ArticleFor the high holidays, Bernie should bring his presidential campaign to...
This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Now that Cornel West has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President, at...
View ArticleA communal confession on Yom Kippur
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 Temple Israel in Great Neck, Long Island celebrates the soldiers...
View ArticleThe endless state of emergency
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 the crisis in Israel-Palestine devolves, with some predicting a...
View ArticleHas Netanyahu’s revisionism ended the use of the Holocaust as enabler 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. As Netanyahu’s Holocaust revisionism continues to find its way around...
View ArticleDo ‘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...
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