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Israel has now revoked the ETAs at least 35 of the 43 people detained while helping a Palestinian family in Nahalin harvest olives, including rabbis & congressional candidate @bradlander.bsky.social From @joshnathankazis.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/israel-revok...

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

Who said it?

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Exclusive, from the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk: Hillels of Georgia fired the rabbi of Emory University's Hillel over her fiancé's criticism of Israel, citing a worry a right-wing donor would cut funding. jewishcurrents.org/emorys-hille...

this is beyond alarming

Emory Hillel fired their new rabbi over her fiancé’s social media posts, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social reports: "There were no questions, no conversation, nothing about me… It was just about the fact that I am in relationship with people who are critical of Israel." jewishcurrents.org/emorys-hille...

Recording is up! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

TOMORROW!!!!! Register to attend here: bit.ly/hl-lander

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Read the rest of this beautiful piece by Rabbi Avigayil Halpern by backing our #Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ben...

Join us in NYC on Tuesday, Oct 6 for a conversation with @bradlander.bsky.social! Moderated by HL community member and Jewish Currents Associate Editor Maya Rosen. Light kosher dinner will be served. Sign up here! bit.ly/hl-lander

"In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities appear to be violating the Law of Return" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

In this first-of-its-kind analysis, NCAR provides alternative categories that can be applied to the data to better capture the nuanced reality of antisemitism in America today. Read the full analysis here:

Nearly half of ADL's 2025 Audit was tied to Israel. A new report from NCAR breaks down what's in that number, from Jews harassed or attacked over Israel's actions to public expressions of hostility toward Israel that ADL considers antisemitic, like 'From the River to the Sea.'

Join us in NYC on Tuesday, Oct 6 for a conversation with @bradlander.bsky.social! Moderated by HL community member and Jewish Currents Associate Editor Maya Rosen. Light kosher dinner will be served. Sign up here! bit.ly/hl-lander

"But not everyone in the community was on board. A group of over 380 alumni, parents, grandparents, & current students of the schools signed a letter to the schools’ leadership..." - SAR alum Alex Augenbraun's report in the Hunter College Envoy thehunterenvoy.org/2026/09/21/o...

‼️ Now 300+ signatures -- add your name here: tally.so/r/KY99vK

📢 Are you a student, alum, parent, grandparent, or faculty/staff member of either Ramaz or SAR? A group of Ramaz/SAR community members have written a letter regarding Friday's tefilah outside Mayor Mamdani's residence. Please sign & share with anyone you think might be interested: tally.so/r/KY99vK

📢 Are you a student, alum, parent, grandparent, or faculty/staff member of either Ramaz or SAR? A group of Ramaz/SAR community members have written a letter regarding Friday's tefilah outside Mayor Mamdani's residence. Please sign & share with anyone you think might be interested: tally.so/r/KY99vK

"We live in troubled times, with war a constant state of the world. With failing governmental structures and questions about the world’s ongoing habitability, questions of the eschatological end times easily arise."

Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s investigative reporter Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor on winning the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for their film “NAZA.” NAZA draws in part on investigations published by +972 Magazine, @theguardian.com & @mekomit.bsky.social

Shana tova to you and your loved ones from Halachic Left! ❤️🍎🍯

Hey my friend Jordan has been working super hard on this collection for years and it's got a bunch of essays by cool people in it so you should throw money at him so that the book can get printed

"Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs" by Shlomi Eldar & Ruth Yuval in @haaretzcom.bsky.social (gift link) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Nitzavim-Vayeilech News: What is the antidote to nihilism? halachicleft.substack.com/p/nitzavim-v...

Sharing a Kickstarter for a projected book on Jews, Judaism, and the left. I am honored to be one of the authors in it with a Halakhic argument for water justice: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ben...

"'This is ethnic cleansing, to put it simply,' Ephraim Sneh, a retired brigadier general and former minister of health, said of Israeli settlers’ attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...

New formats for printing just added at halachicleft.org/torah -- including to print your own half-page folded booklet for both US/Canada and international (A4/A5) paper sizes.

unsurprisingly this is turning out to be very good and also helpfully generative for things i could write for yom kippur (yes i'm starting early)

Over 100 printed copies already ordered! 😄

✨ Our new essay collection for 5787, HaYom Te’amtzeinu (“Strengthen Us This Day”) is now out! 💜 You can read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1vQZ6... AND you can purchase a printed copy here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

I have a Talmudic reading in here about Shofar, Rosh Hashanah, and the notion that G-d is really the only true Owner:

Also Zoom registration here! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Dr. Rachel Havrelock: "The Joshua State: National Religion in Contemporary Israel" (1:00 PM - 02:00 PM CDT)

Rabbi Will Friedman: "'Legitimate' Violence and Its Costs: Limits to and Consequences of Self-Defense and War" (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

CHICAGO: come learn w/ us THIS Sunday! R Will Friedman: "'Legitimate' Violence and Its Costs: Limits to and Consequences of Self-Defense and War" Dr. Rachel Havrelock: "The Joshua State: National Religion in Contemporary Israel" SIGN UP: www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-je... Session descriptions 🧵