Should we be saying Kaddish for the Jewish Left?

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Aryeh Cohen

June 13, 2012

“>In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible makes a slightly controversial though eminently plausible argument. The book is an interesting analysis of the politics of the Bible by a political scientist, who is not a biblical scholar, but has written an important book on the uses of the Exodus story by liberation movements (“>Adam Kirsch and Jewish Ideas Daily‘s It is true that the hard-line Yiddishist/Bundist/secularist/anti-religious/communist left is dead or breathing its last. (The Yiddishist wing was recently given “>The Jewish Political Tradition after all, and in In God’s Shadow he consistently distinguishes between the Biblical and the Rabbinic.

The contemporary Jewish social-justice movement is in this sense a rabbinic movement. The texts that inform the actions of the “>Jewish World Watch, Ame“>Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, and “>Jill Jacobs, “>Shmuley Yanklowitz, or ” title=”here” target=”_blank”>here and

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