Tonight: Joshua Leifer in conversation with Rabbi Andy Bachman in Brooklyn. eventbrite.com/e/joshua-leife…

This is tonight! eventbrite.com/e/joshua-leife…

A couple of our members at Joshua Leifer's book talk for "Tablets Shattered" in Brooklyn today! 🔥🔥🔥

As a writer, the best feeling is when a reviewer gets the intervention the book is trying to make.

Because of my opposition to "the siege of Gaza, I had feared that synagogues would be reluctant (and surely some still are) to host events. I did not anticipate that the trouble would come from a bookstore in Brooklyn," writes Joshua Leifer: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My take for The Atlantic on the events of the last week theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"the one immutable truth about I/P these days: Neither Israelis nor Palestinians are going anywhere, and both peoples have the right to equality, dignity and self-determination. No movement that ignores this reality has any hope of success."

“But silence about the pitfalls of the left carries its own risks—including risks to the left itself. My experience last week was so demoralizing in part because such episodes make moving the mainstream Jewish community much harder.”

What is happening now in the northern West-Bank is the Gazafication of all Palestinian land. The Israeli army is attacking with massive troops, including airplanes, and is about to invade a central hospital in Jenin. Early this morning Israel’s Foreign Minister tweeted about the

U.S. to announce new sanctions for group that supports illegal West Bank outposts. "Hashomer Yosh" has been funded and supported in recent years by the Israeli government. axios.com/2024/08/28/us-…

“Opening one’s eyes to the dehumanization of Palestinians does not require closing one’s eyes to the dehumanization of Israelis, and vice versa…. No movement that ignores this reality has any hope of success.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

[1] In Sep 2022, when talk began on the possibility of the IDF returning to conduct airstrikes in the WB, I published this🧵as a warning. Some called me an alarmist. I wish I had been wrong. But about 20% of Pal casualties in the WB since Oct 7 are from IL airstrikes. 🧵

כשנפרדתי מכם, ביקשת ממני ריצ׳ל שאשוב לצלם אתכם בתמונה משפחתית כשהרש יחזור. הבטחתי לך שאעשה זאת. התעקשת איתי ואמרת לי שאאמין בזה ואני אמרתי לך שאני מאמינה בזה בכל ליבי וכך היה. התפללתי לשובו של הרש בכל אחת מתפילותיי. רייצ'ל, ג'ון, אני כל כך מצטערת שלא הצלחתי לעמוד בהבטחה שלי.

היה אפשר להציל אותם. אין נחמה

"what the book asks is if we can build communities that are obligated without giving up the values that we care about: feminism, inclusion, LGBT rights, anti-racism, opposition to the occupation." Really appreciated talking with Andrew Silow-Carroll jta.org/2024/09/01/ide…

Really enjoyed talking with Etan Nechin for this piece. I'm very grateful for the careful attention given to the arguments at the core of TABLETS SHATTERED. The best an author can ask for is that the book be taken seriously on its own terms.

"You can be very pessimistic but also be very hopeful. You have to be able to continue to hope that it can be different." Many thanks to Yonat Shimron for this conversation! religionnews.com/2024/08/30/in-…

A decade ago at least, when I still wrote for +972 Magazine, we said that one day police would use West Bank occupation tactics on Jewish Israelis. Happening now.

Excellent review of Joshua Leifer new book over at Jewish Review of Books jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary-i…

ראיון מעניין ומומלץ עם ג'ושוע לייפר ב"הארץ" היום על ספרו. Joshua Leifer haaretz.co.il/gallery/litera…