Redemption and Inescapable Tragedy

Slifka Chapel (2nd floor) 80 Wall Street, New Haven, CT, United States

What does it mean for Jews to wield political and military power, and to be engaged in ongoing - at times violent - conflict with others, and yet to insist on imagining peace? In this session we will navigate Judaism’s  rich, fraught, and ultimately tragic images of war and redemption - which together aim to […]

Should We Be Pluralists when it Really Counts?

Slifka Chapel (2nd floor) 80 Wall Street, New Haven, CT, United States

We rightly celebrate the diversity of our community as not only a fact but a guiding and supreme value - and we also (again, rightly) know that communities acquire values by delineating the intolerable. How can and ought we exist as a community that does not merely tolerate difference but raises it up - when […]