Vincent Calabrese
Contributor
September 22, 2023
On Yom Kippur: The Fast I Desire
Coming ten days after the beginning of the new year in the Jewish calendar, the day of Yom Kippur is at once joyous and solemn. On this day, Jews marvel at the loving forgiveness that God offers those who repent, and tremble at the terrible gap between the lives we have led and those we
April 5, 2023
On this Passover: Raise a Glass for Redemption
The celebration of Passover is an opportunity to ask ourselves–in what ways might our visions of liberation be limited, even now?
December 21, 2022
Building God’s House: Hanukkah 2022
The festival of Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Temple which stood in ancient Jerusalem during the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire, some 150 years before the Common Era. This is the latest event in Jewish history which is commemorated with a holiday of its own.
October 12, 2022
The Story of Sukkot
Sukkot envisions a humanity that is united but not homogenized. Its utopia is predicated on a recognition of our equal needs and our equal rights to the world’s bounty.
March 17, 2022
#ThrowbackThursday Don’t Just Change Rulers, Change the System: a Cautionary Tale at Purim
This week, Jewish communities around the world will celebrate Purim. During this festival we remember the heroism of Queen Esther and Mordecai, the leaders of the Jewish community in ancient Persia who frustrated the attempts of Haman, a counselor of the emperor Achashverosh, to massacre the Jewish people and loot their wealth. Purim has a carnivalesque atmosphere,
December 2, 2021
Until Traffic Has Ceased in the Marketplace
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates a historical moment when some refused to accept the world as it was. Rather than treating the might of the Seleucid Empire as unmovable, and the process of Hellenization at work within the Jewish nation as inevitable, the Maccabees were willing to refuse, and in their refusal showed the world the miraculous
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