Subject 04 · Jewish Identity, Land & Peoplehood
Jewish Identity, Land & Peoplehood
Judaism is not only a religion. Am Yisrael is a people, and this part of the library holds the writing about land, memory, war, exile and what it means to belong to this story now.
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About this subject
Some of these pieces were written from a bomb shelter. They are kept as they were written.
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The essential lessons
Essential 01 · 1 min
Can You Be Fully Jewish Outside of Israel?
A brief podcast companion piece on why the land of Israel is experienced as more than a country: memory, identity and belonging made physical. It considers inherited collective trauma awakened by war and why return can feel like a spiritual homecoming.
Essential 02 · 5 min
The Feminine Response to Antisemitism: Unity and Redemption
The closing episode of Feminine Rising asks what rising antisemitism calls the Jewish people toward internally: unity rather than only defence. It reads sinat chinam and Jewish division as a spiritual problem given that the mission is oneness, and argues that relational, feminine capacities are needed alongside strength.
Essential 03 · 1 min
Holy Homesickness
A short prose poem on exile held in the body: the siren that sounds in the cells, generations who packed quickly, and the question of how a people learns to rest once it has come home. It is a literary piece rather than an explainer.
Syllabus
Everything in Jewish Identity, Land & Peoplehood
- 01
being Jewish outside Israel · 1 min
Can You Be Fully Jewish Outside of Israel?
A short reflection, from the podcast, on living in the land our ancestors prayed toward for two thousand years, and why her safety matters to Jews everywhere.
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Feminine Rising · Part 7 · 5 min
The Feminine Response to Antisemitism: Unity and Redemption
The final Feminine Rising episode. Not only how we respond to the world, but what this moment asks the Jewish people to become.
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Jewish exile and longing for Jerusalem · 1 min
Holy Homesickness
A short poetic piece on what two thousand years of turning toward Jerusalem does to a body, and how a people learns it is allowed to be home.
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living in Israel during war · 2 min
Russian Roulette in the Land of Miracles
Two weeks into the war: shelters, moving apartments between sirens, neighbours becoming neighbours, and why people fly back into this country rather than out of it.
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