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I Never Was Song by Linda Hirs
I Never Was First they came for the CommunistsI stood by silentlyI never was a CommunistWhat did it matter to meWhat did it matter (3) to me Then they came for the Union ...Songscontributed by Leo Rosenstein -
One Final Paragraph of Advice
"Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
Three Conclusions from the Exo
1. Wherever you live, it is probably Mitzrayim.2. There is a better place, a promised land.3. The way to this promised land is through the wilderness -- there is no way to get ther ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
God acting through nature
Mysterious little things happen to me all the time. Once I tripped and a ball zoomed past my head, narrowly missing me. Another time, I fell ill and missed a science exam for which I studied the wrong material.Those little t ...-- Ten Plaguescontributed by Chacha Rotenberg -
The Second Cup
A cup to our teachers: To those we have known and those whose work has inspired us, and made space for our lives. We are graeful to you who did and said things for the first time, who claimed and reclaimed our traditions, who forg ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
Adorno and Horkheimer on Judai
The Jewish religion brooks no word which might bring solace to the despair of all mortality. It places all hope in the prohibition on invoking falsity as God, the finite as the inf ...Bareichcontributed by Ajay Chaudhary -
Levinas on the Other
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, whic ...-- Closingcontributed by Ajay Chaudhary -
Theses on the Philosophy of Hi
"The soothsayers who found out from time what it had in store certainly did not experience time as homogeneous or empty. Anyone who keeps this in mind will perhaps get an idea of h ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Ajay Chaudhary -
Introductory Reflection
The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all is reco ...Covercontributed by Ajay Chaudhary -
Let my People Go
Let my People GoLouis Armstrong Go down mosesWay down in egypt landTell all pharaoes toLet my people go! When israel was in egypt land...Let my people go!Oppressed so hard they could not stand...Let my people go! So ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Ezra Match -
If Violence is Wrong in Americ
"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong f ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Ezra Match -
Adrienne Rich on Freedom
Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk outunder the Milky Way, feeling the riversof light, the fields of dark—freedom is daily, prose-bound, routineremembering. Putting together, inch by inchthe starry worlds. From all the lost colle ...Hallelcontributed by Richard Schwartz -
Occupy Passover
In the Occupy movement, on Wall Street most dramatically, some people grabbed hold of the concept and realities of imbalances of wealth and infused already present economic concerns with worries about the divisive nature of our ec ...Introductioncontributed by ruby rowan -
The Orange
In the early 1980s, the Hillel Foundation invited me to speak on a panel at Oberlin College. While on campus, I came across a Haggada that had been written by some Oberlin students to express feminist concerns. One ritual they dev ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Cody Greenes -
4th Cup - Responsibility
In a free society, some are guilty. But all are responsible.~Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel How can one apply this in one's own, daily life?Is this a fair charge to humanity? Why? Why not? Optional song:Go tell it on the m ...Hallelcontributed by Cody Greenes -
Praise the Contrary and Its De
For the chief musician, on common instrument: a song of rebellion.Praise rising up. Praise unlawful assembly.Praise the road of excess and the palace of wisdom.Praise glass houses. ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Eileen Levinson
