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This is an archive of exclusively modern resources preprared for use as special readings or recitations in commemoration of days in the Jewish calendar, as well as on civic days on civil calendars.

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📄 the past didn’t go anywhere: making resistance to antisemitism part of all of our movements, by April Rosenblum (2007)

It’s always a real struggle for the Left to successfully tackle oppression within its own ranks. But when we do it, our movements gain, every time, from the deeper understandings that emerge. To start the process this time, we need some basic information about what anti-Jewish oppression is and how to counter it. But it has to come from a perspective of justice for all people, not from opportunistic attempts to slander or censor social justice efforts that are gaining strength. . . .

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., combating anti-Jewish oppression, combating antisemitism, Jewish liberation, Jewish Radicalism, liberation, particularism and universalism, שפוך חמתך shfokh ḥamatekha, solidarity, who we are

Contributor(s): April Rosenblum and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 Nevertheless She Persisted: A Modern Esther Tribute for Purim and Women’s History Month, by Rabbi David Evan Markus (Bayit, 2018)

Purim affirms Esther’s stand against official silencing, abuse of power, misogyny and anti-Semitism. At first an outsider, Queen Esther used her insider power to reveal and thwart official hatred that threatened Jewish life and safety. We celebrate one woman’s courageous cunning to right grievous wrongs within corrupt systems. The archetype of heroic woman standing against hatred continues to call out every society still wrestling with official misogyny, power abuses and silencing. For every official silencing and every threat to equality and freedom, may we all live the lesson of Esther and all who stand in her shoes: “Nevertheless, she persisted.” . . .

Categories: Modern Miscellany, Purim Readings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, civil rights, social justice, tropified texts, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof, United States, Women's History Month

Contributor(s): David Evan Markus, Bayit: Building Jewish and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 Purim 2021: From Darkness to Light, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat & Rabbi David Evan Markus (Bayit, 2021)

Tropified texts for Purim 2021 juxtaposing the text of Queen Esther with the words of Vice President Kamalla Harris and poet laureate Amanda Gorman. . . .

Categories: Modern Miscellany, Purim Readings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., 59th Presidential Inauguration, Cantillated readings in English, transtropilation, tropified texts, United States, United States General Election 2000

Contributor(s): David Evan Markus, Rachel Barenblat and Bayit: Building Jewish

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