a cogent exploration of relationships between israel, zionism, and judaism as framed through the cultural lens of Emmanuel Levinas

Consider a pair of hypotheses: first, that one major strand of Jewish mysticism supports both the study and the practice of computer science, which I take to include both the formal mathematical and scientific study of the informational and the engineering of informational systems. Second, that our current technical understanding of computation helps clarify a key aspect of the Jewish mystical tradition. Begin with a digression on the role of computer science in showing scientifically that the world itself is more than just material, turn to an examination of one aspect of the Kabbalah, and then look at the practice of computer science as a modern realization of this aspect of the Kabbalah.

The Jewish Zine Archive began in 2019 and is a physical

While not recognized in the United States (due to former President Eisenhower and the wave of anti-communist attitudes during the Cold War), International Workers Day commemorates a series of events in the U.S. that would forever change U.S. politics and labor, and led to the blossoming of the Jewish anarchist movement, a wing of which was deeply grounded in faith.

As a Jewish creator whose work is directly inspired by Jewish magic & mysticism, I’m asked all the time how I learned about these traditions - particularly by other Jews who grew up, as I did, without any awareness of this side of Judaism. As a queer, trans & disabled Jew, I’ve found that I connect most deeply with spiritual practices that have (both historically and currently) often been marginalized even within Jewish cultures.

After the Russian Revolution, Jews left behind the shtetl and had to navigate a modern identity: New Soviet Man.