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About Contact Our Network Topics Authors Podcast Adult Education Web Conversations Support Us Menu Topics Authors Podcast Adult Education Web Conversations Support Us Topics Authors Podcast Adult Education Web Conversations Support Us Menu Topics Authors Podcast Adult Education Web Conversations Support Us Enrich Your Passover Experience Explore a variety of ways to understand Pesakh and to immerse in its practices. We have curated a series of essays that open discussions and analyses of Passover by Erica Riddick, Rabbi Margie Jacobs, Rabbi Mychal Copeland, Max Buckler, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, Rabbi Vivie Mayer, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, z”l , Dr Shoshana Fershtman and Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein. Read the Essays The Israel-Hamas War: Reflections in a Time of Crisis Engage in groundbreaking Jewish Conversations. Review multiple perspectives from Rabbis Haviva Ner-David, Yohanna Kinberg, Jason Bonder, Seth Goldstein, Nathan Kamesar, Arthur Waskow, Robert Tabak, Amy Eilberg, Micah Weiss, Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Laurie Zimmerman, David Teutsch, and Dr. Ilan Peleg and Oren Jay Sofer . Explore what’s possible. Read here » Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations Evolve is an online platform with conversation-sparking essays from thought-provoking rabbis, leaders and creators. Explore essays on key topics, as well as curricula, sermon sparks and videos that apply the best thinking to contemporary questions. Antisemitism Holocaust Responsibility and the Power of Language May 6, 2024 by Scott A. Buckler The Nazis did not refer to themselves as Nazis.” Read More Israel and Palestine Living in a Time of Shattered Faith May 6, 2024 by Dr. Louis E. Newman We’re living through the disintegration of American Jewish civil religion as we have known it. Read More Climate Justice & Environmentalism Animal Intelligence: Looking Beyond Chosenness and Speciesism for the Sake of the Planet May 6, 2024 by Rabbi Bob Gluck The sonic world all around us reminds us of the agency of the creatures that are its creators. Read More Israel and Palestine A Hidden Universe of Suffering”: The Palestinian Children Sent to Jail May 6, 2024 by Nathan Thrall The presence of Israeli troops stationed outside the school seemed designed to provoke the students so that they could then arrest as many of them as possible. Read More A Supersized Passover Episode: Rabbi Nathan Kamesar on the Israel-Hamas War; Rabbi Maurice Harris on his starring role in the new Netflix series Testament: The Story of Moses Episode 52 April 25, 2024 It’s a supersized Passover edition of Evolve! First, Rabbi Nathan Kamesar drops by to discuss his recent essay,The Legitimacy of the State of Israel: Surviving in a Hostile Region. ” Bryan and Nathan reflect on their respective relationships with Israel and Israeli politics. Nathan opens up about what it’s like being a pulpit rabbi and spiritual leader during wartime and how he’s been approaching his job the last few months. Nathan and Bryan offer some of their personal opinions about the Israel-Hamas war and war in general. Nathan shares which of the many unknowns he would most like to know in order to make sense of things. Bryan asks Nathan about his response to the recent Atlantic Magazine cover story The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending”. Nathan reflects on how he’s thinking about Passover this year, how he’s trying to center empathy and why it’s impossible to avoid politics at the seder table. Then, for a special bonus interview, Reconstructing Judaism’s own Rabbi Maurice Harris stops by for a conversation with Sam Wachs about all things Moses, including his starring role in the new Netflix Docudrama Testament: The Story of Moses . Listen now Web Conversations Evolve Web Conversations are opportunities for you to interact with our authors in real-time, by asking questions and challenging their assumptions. Videos and transcripts are posted in an archive for those who are unable to attend live. View Upcoming Web Conversations Browse Essays by Topic Antisemitism Climate Justice & Environmentalism Community End of Life Ethics Gender God Identity Israel and Palestine Justice Multifaith Race Spiritual Practice Technology Text Resources Why Be Jewish? Get the latest from Evolve delivered to your inbox. 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