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How is the NYTimes opinion editor like its executive editor?
"Also like Kahn, who is an heir to the Staples fortune, Kingsbury comes from big-box-company money: Her father was the CEO of Kohl’s and before that Burlington Coat Factory."
Both Zionists and anti-Zionists belong at the Seder table. But they shouldn’t start a food fight.
The Forward asks: Is the Passover Seder Zionist? It concludes: Undergirding this Zionist/anti-Zionist Seder debate is whether the Passover Seder is about liberation generally, or Jewish liberation specifically. This question reflects a broader tension between universalism and particularism in Jewish tradition, according to Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, President Emeritus of the Academy of Jewish Religion–California....In Gottlieb’s view, the Passover story has room for particularism and universalism, and thus, both Zionists and anti-Zionists belong at the Seder table.
Introducing a Siddur for Seekers. Two, actually.
It can be argued that the only thing more heretical than atheism, at least from an eagle-eyed Maimonidean perspective, is actually existing theism. When the self-proclaimed prophets of "God" are selling indulgences in the White House or promoting God-based hate, it's hard to sustain the idea that the word "God" actually denotes goodness. And while this is most loudly true at the present moment in American English, those of us fluent in Hebrew for prayers and news know that the situation is no less dire for the loudest, and most powerful, promoters of the traditional Jewish names of the Deity.
https://yudel.com/2025/04/10/introducing-a-siddur-for-seekers-two-actually/
This is the way. It is going to be the only way. The sooner the better.
It will be ugly. Maintaining nonviolence, in the face of goons more numerous, ruthless, and powerful than the likes of Bull Connor in the civil rights era, will require immense courage and discipline.
Will the 3.5% rule apply?
Do 3.5% of us care enough?
Do we have the courage and discipline?
We are about to find out.
(And yeah, Israel isn't a great example. Better: India/Gandhi, US/MLK.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/world/europe/trump-courts-defiance-autocrats-playbook.html
Every now and then I get jolted out of my work of bookmaking and realize: Holy ****! I just enabled a conversation between Mordecai Kaplan, Emil Fackenheim, Martin Buber, and King David about God and the Holocaust.
Jon Udell
