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April 2025

published April 3, 2025

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Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter: Beyond the Headlines

April 3, 2025Brett Krutzsch

The Editor reflects on finding ways to focus amidst chaos

Perspective

Son of Safam

April 3, 2025Matthew H. Ellis

What a musical nostalgia trip taught me about the roots of my Jewish identity

Feature

Meeting Chaos with Compassion and Humor through “The Roots of Buddhist Psychology”

April 3, 2025Melissa Hart

The 30th anniversary of Jack Kornfield’s famed lecture series on Buddhism and how it resonates today amidst social and...

Review

Nothing Unclean Will Enter America, the New Jerusalem

April 3, 2025Ben Woollard

A review of the book, “Immigration and Apocalypse”

Review

Spiritual Oligarchy

April 3, 2025Miguel Petrosky

A Review of “The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy”

Excerpt

Measuring Salvation in Chains and Corpses

April 3, 2025Andrew Krinks

An excerpt from “White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization”

Podcast

The Revealer Podcast Episode 57: Police, Prisons, and the Religion of Mass Criminalization

April 3, 2025Editorial Staff

Race, religion, and the urgent need for reform

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Feature

Contradictory Conditions: Jewish Life in East Germany, Past and Present

December 7, 2023Ken Chitwood

How Jewish communities have re-established themselves in eastern Germany

Excerpt

What the Rabbis Can Teach Us About STIs

November 9, 2023Rebecca Epstein-Levi

An excerpt from "When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics"

Perspective

The Religion of Reproductive Rights Claims: The Jewish Fight to Legalize Abortion

October 4, 2023Michal Raucher

Instead of using conservative Christian religious freedom strategies, Jewish groups should draw on their history of reproductive rights activism

Excerpt

How Jewish Humor Has Changed Over Time

March 7, 2023Jennifer Caplan

An excerpt from "Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials"

Perspective

Turning to the Talmud to Find Gender Diversity that Speaks to Today

October 6, 2022Max Strassfeld

The Talmud’s eight genders offers important insights about Jewish views on the existence of bodily gender diversity

Perspective

Prophetic Except for Palestine: On Social Justice and Reform Judaism

March 7, 2022Martha Schoolman

Reform Judaism promotes social justice activism in the United States, but stays mostly silent on Israel's treatment of Palestinians

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