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Exploring Hasidism: Meet the Baal Shem Tov
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This program is presented in memory of David Biale.
Who was Rabbi Yisra’el ben Eli‘ezer of Mezhbizh (the Baal Shem Tov), Hasidism's legendary “founder”? His religious personality defies easy categories. Through his students and followers, he ignited a popular revivalist movement—an explosive spiritual force that has profoundly shaped modern Jewish life. For nearly three centuries, his image has captivated historians, scholars, artists, storytellers,... Read more
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Radical Jewish Reading Circle: Gustav Landauer
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In early 1919, Gustav Landauer was murdered by paramilitary thugs in Munich. He was a visionary, a philosopher, and a martyr for a world built on mutual aid rather than state violence. This month, as we grapple with the recent, echoing violence of paramilitary forces right here in our own country, Landauer’s life and thought feel less like history and more like a mirror. Landauer believed that the state is not a building or a border, but a mode of behavior—a way we treat one another. “We dest... Read more
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Radical Jewish Reading Circle: Emma Goldman
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Join us for the Radical Jewish Reading Circle: three evenings of reading, thinking, and conversation about radical thinkers of Jewish origin.
This month we turn to Emma Goldman, the anarchist firebrand who declared: "The most violent element in society is ignorance." Born in 1869 to a Jewish family in Kovno, Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania), Goldman became the most notorious anarchist in America. A fearless advocate of free speech, birth control, ... Read more
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Queer Jewish Berlin: Gender, Desire, and Liberation in the Weimar Republic
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When Franz Rosenzweig opened the original Lehrhaus in Frankfurt in 1920, a parallel revolution was already underway in Berlin. Jewish doctors, publishers, and anarchist philosophers were building the world's first institutions dedicated to what we now call LGBTQ+ rights—writing foundational texts on gender identity, filling newsstands with the world's first lesbian magazines, and theorizing forms of love and community that defied every convention of bourgeois life. Their work was as intelle... Read more
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