Or Hadash | עור חדש: Sacred Material Culture for a Jewish Future
by Shoshana Gugenhiem Kedem || Or Hadash | עור חדש is a Jewish and contemporary art in(ter)vention into the normative practice of parchment making that…
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To the Ghosts Who are Still Living
by Ami Weintraub || My piece, “To The Ghosts Who are Still Living,” is a collection of essays written over the span of two years…
TGIS: Thank goodness it’s sh…mita!
by Erika Owens || This semester I returned to school for a master’s in social justice and decided to write about shmita as a conceptual…
A Shmita/Yovel Interactive, Choose-your-own-adventure, Contemplative Seder and Idea-Sparker
by Jacob (Ya’akov) Sapon || The following seven encounters with Shmita and Yovel are an invitation to experience the source text for Shmita (from the…
On Shmita
by Camille Lerner || My work is a series of interconnected poems (the last one is a prose poem) that I began writing while at…
The Society of Sheva
by Harper Pierce || I chose to write a short story because I feel like I could communicate some of the main ideas of Shmita…
Rest is to be Blessed
by Naomi Matlow || This poem is about the value of rest and even more so, the spiritual commandment to do so. In resting not…
The Four Modern Pillars of Shmitah
by Elyssa Hurwitz || This essay is a culmination of a year’s worth of research, exploration, and innovation around Shmitah and its continued relevancy for…
On Belief
by Zach Ben-Amots || The poem, ‘On Belief,’ is a rondeau, following the form’s classical rhyming scheme and stanza structure. It’s based on a poem…
Lunar Calendar
by Maia Evrona || In order to understand the value of shmita, it is important to understand the standard Jewish calendar we experience year in,…
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