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“The Necessity of Exile” by Shaul Magid: An Ayin Press Book Launch
Celebrate the launch of Shaul Magid’s The Necessity of Exile: Essays From a Distance, a new book of essays from “America’s most insightful writer on the relationship between Zionism and Judaism” (Peter Beinart, author of The Crisis of Zionism). This Ayin Press book launch was hosted by Congregation Beth Elohim at the Center for New Jewish Culture, and featured Shaul Magid in conversation with Peter Beinart.
Co-hosted by Jewish Currents, Community Bookstore and the Center for New Jewish Culture
Order the book here: ayinpress.org/the-necessity-of-exile/
- About The Necessity of Exile -
What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond to them in our own time. In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, rabbi and scholar Shaul Magid offers an essential contribution to this intergenerational process, inviting us to rethink our current moment making use of religious and political resources from the Jewish tradition.
On many levels, Zionism was conceived as an attempt to “end the exile” of the Jewish people, both politically and theologically. In a series of incisive essays, Magid challenges us to consider the price of diminishing or even erasing the exilic character of Jewish life. A thought-provoking work of political imagination, The Necessity of Exile reclaims exile as a positive stance for constructive Jewish engagement with Israel|Palestine, antisemitism, diaspora, and a broken world in need of repair.
- About the speakers -
Shaul Magid is professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, and rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue. Author of numerous books, his most recent prior work is Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (Princeton University Press, 2021). He is an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the American Society for the Study of Religion, and lives in Thetford, Vermont.
Peter Beinart teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, a MSNBC political commentator, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is also a nonfiction author and former Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, 2012); The Icarus Syndrome (HarperCollins, 2010); and The Good Fight (HarperCollins, 2006).
- About the hosts -
Ayin Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house and production studio rooted in Jewish culture and emanating outward. Ayin was founded on a deep belief in the power of culture and creativity to heal, transform, and uplift the world we share and build together. Both online and in print, we seek to celebrate artists and thinkers at the margins and explore the growing edges of collective consciousness through a diverse range of mediums and genres. We are committed to amplifying a polyphony of voices from within and beyond the Jewish world. ayinpress.org/
The Center for New Jewish Culture is a place for vital, boundary-pushing conversation about what it means to be Jewish. It is a sanctuary for cultural experimentation and ambition, with an emphasis on art, text, food, ritual and new ideas. The Center bridges past and future in its own space in a century-old former synagogue, and it searches for a Jewish way of being that speaks to us now. www.newjewishculture.org/
Jewish Currents, founded in 1946, is an award-winning magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left. jewishcurrents.org/
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  • @RehilahIsabellaHamid
    @RehilahIsabellaHamid Před 3 měsíci

    thank you and so needed now

  • @jboudon11
    @jboudon11 Před 4 měsíci

    as soon as a dude mentions the Jewish-Roman Wars, you KNOW he's about to bust out the "actually we're indigneous" shtick. hasbara is painfully predictable.

  • @HarryOrenstein
    @HarryOrenstein Před 5 měsíci

    Sorry to disagree with Shaul Magid, נ"י, there was a longing for Zion, without Herzl's brand of "political-Liberal Zionism", for instance in 1881 the Yemenite Jews came to Ottoman Eretz Yisroel and the "Perushim" Lithuanian Jews of the "Old Yishuv" arrived there in 1808/9 - neither had read or even heard of Herzl! Elsewhere Shaul Magid נ"י, discusses Rabbi Kahane, הי"ד, which, unfortunately he does not talk about here! Rabbi Kahane, הי"ד. was the original post-Zionist/anti-Zionist/counter-Zionist! And, nary a mention in this discussion. Jews pray for Zion and their return for Millenia.

    • @jboudon11
      @jboudon11 Před 4 měsíci

      mmm i'm not sold on your argument. the yemenite jews and the litvak perushim you mention are certainly instances of jewish immigration to eretz yisroel, but neither of those, singly or together, demonstrates to me that there was a concerted effort to organize aliyah en masse at any point prior to herzl - am i mistaken/are there examples of mass aliyah that i just haven't read about? / my understanding was that the critiques advanced by the satmar and munkaczer rebbes, while certainly not accepted unanimously, had relatively wide purchase among frume yidn in central & eastern europe up til the rise of nazism and the shoah (the satmar rebbe even maintained his anti-zionism to the end of his life, past the israeli capture of jerusalem in june 67, which, seemingly miraculous, managed to endear even many long-time anti-Zionists among the orthodox to the State, though perhaps with some continuing ambivalence re: the state's secularism); whereas secular or centrist anti-Zionism could be found among Jews in, say, Germany or the U.S. who favored (continued) assimilation, and left anti-Zionisms predominated among Bundists, Communists, and anarchists, all of whom rejected nationalism on principle (and Jewish nationalism with it). so did you read Magid's book on Kahane? i suppose you're right, it's curious he didn't come up in this talk, but i don't think that was out of mendacity or will to deceive or something, the conversation just seemed to focus on the travails of liberal zionism. anyways, if you haven't read it, go for it! i only got through like the first half, looking forward to finishing it.

  • @iamthenews5624
    @iamthenews5624 Před 6 měsíci

    Yup! Zionism is morally untenable

  • @danielpincus221
    @danielpincus221 Před 6 měsíci

    55:00 in a meaningful sense, the Biblical narrative of our ancestors coming from elsewhere!and becoming the true "rightful" inhabitants… Well… It's the same narrative.

  • @danielpincus221
    @danielpincus221 Před 6 měsíci

    For the 1970s-on generation, Zionism was presented as a substitute for a commitment to a life of Torah and Mitzvot.

  • @stewardeastes8240
    @stewardeastes8240 Před 7 měsíci

    Promo_SM 🤔

  • @Peter-ov6xh
    @Peter-ov6xh Před 7 měsíci

    If a group wants to pride itself on its separateness and alienation from its host, it should not be surprised if the host has an adverse reaction.

  • @nancyiaj
    @nancyiaj Před 7 měsíci

    Lies are the magick of white supremacy… Sociopaths are created… Truth is righteousness… God is Love… The righteous reflect God-in truth & love. Take those statements however you want…

  • @JasonCunliffe
    @JasonCunliffe Před 7 měsíci

    00:00 I n t r o 10:49 START

  • @sumardon
    @sumardon Před 8 měsíci

    Watched 20 minutes and already have fundamental objections like" - Describing Israel as a necessity - supremacist settler colonialism is NOT a necessity - Hinting that just as the US is a reality despite its "original sin" Israel too should be accepted as a reality. Should we have accepted White South Africa using the same argument or that American slave owners should have carried on holding on to their slaves? Of course not. - Saying Israel is a Jewish homeland but also the homeland of another people - NOT in the same way. The "other people" were living there. The homelands of the settler colonists were elsewhere.

    • @nancyiaj
      @nancyiaj Před 7 měsíci

      Oppression, suppression & Identity fraud-under an appropriated Semitic God…

  • @sambaxrock
    @sambaxrock Před 8 měsíci

    Incredible talk. Thank you Shaul and Peter 🍉

  • @debrac1688
    @debrac1688 Před 8 měsíci

    אוי לנו😢

  • @selma5885
    @selma5885 Před 10 měsíci

    This talk needs to shared right now, more than ever!

  • @robgreenfield883
    @robgreenfield883 Před rokem

    We are the pure innocent expressions or aspects of God expression that extends from the eternal now. God gave us the freedom to explore in the heavenly kingdoms any idea as a free mind. As an innocent child who plays with curiosity & an open heart, we explore the “what if we were separate & special idea.” This gave way to image making (idols) that would effect our reality. God’s son in his playfulness became conscious of itself with a belief that we are a perishable form that needs at all costs to protect its psychological self & physical personal little self as an ego( acronym for edging God out). The real trauma was the belief that we killed God off & now we are sentenced to hell. This terrorized God’s son(suns) so much, we had to play the victim( even though we believe we are the victimizer) by projecting it out onto others whether it is our special tribal family or our so called enemies. This is all the sleeping mind’s illusion that the impossible actually happened. We hid in time space & form to project that we need to redeem ourselves before God can grant us permission back into the kingdom. This false Mind has corrected itself by God’s symbol of a higher Mind savior. The Jews may call it the Mashiac which will appear in the future and the Christians call it Jesus the Christ who appeared in the past. A illusive body that has a story in time cannot exit in the now. We hide our innocence by deciding to believe (there is lie in that word) that we are separate bodies that can be effected by outside circumstances. God has given a way back by our higher minds (above the battleground of conflict & hate) to realize as an observer of these barriers to Truth that we are loved, beloved & loving extensions of our source. There is no world of form. There is just the Holy condition of our light Mind with no shadows or clouds to block the Truth about our authentic self.

  • @irenehenderson8516
    @irenehenderson8516 Před rokem

    So very heartbreaking and so true😔😢. Friends who have traveled to Israel have been appalled by the treatment of the Palestinians. They also were intimidated by questioning at airport and ck points. We are witnessing it here in America due to a corrupt former President. Prayers for humanity🙏🙌🏼

  • @Hands2HealNow
    @Hands2HealNow Před rokem

    These are so different from the usual offerings related to trauma and world events.

  • @cobyfriedman1116
    @cobyfriedman1116 Před rokem

    Tirzah darling, Jewish trauma is our Jewish Karma for the racism that's embeded in the Jewish faith and Constitution a.k.a The Torah: e.g.: Book of Sam 1 15:3: “Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.” and also here: Deut. 20:16-18 “However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. You must completely destroy them - the Hethite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite ….” So please enough with the victimhood bullshit. The Jewish religion is Satanic, Zionism is evil and you can't put a lipstik on that pig. Rabbi Yeshua was the first and last Rabi to get it right and we (yes, we the Jews) demanded the Roman government crucify him for telling it like it is.

  • @daowoman
    @daowoman Před rokem

    Thank you so much for sharing with us your thoughtful words and your perspectives. As I go about my day, now, after watching this, I plan to fully engage in my life as a curious, and willing participant!

  • @neallcalvert
    @neallcalvert Před rokem

    Thank you, all.

  • @shahnalax2406
    @shahnalax2406 Před rokem

    from Akeidat Yitzhak 15c:14 " No one is wise in Torah but the master of traumatic experience." Such a needed discussion. Thank you Tirzah and Gabor.

  • @Bronett
    @Bronett Před rokem

    Thank you very much for this!

  • @ileanakatzenelson9753

    I am a daughter of a Holocaust Survivor from Dachau. My dad taught us kindness. He taught us to be upstanders, not bystanders, for every victim of abuse, not just Jews. I understand many people didn't have my dad or his moral compass. This conversation was difficult for me, but I know the truth of your words. I believe there's much healing to be done for both the Palestinian and the Israelis. I imagine you both will be labeled by many as "self hating Jews," It is not easy to expose our darkness and our shortcomings, but it is necessary. I hope to live in a world where we are ready to face our demons and be The Light Unto the Nations we are supposed to be. I agree that until we heal the trauma that runs through us, we are just bound to repeat the difficulties and suffering we've experienced. I appreciate both of you for your bravery and Courage in pointing us to where we need to be for healing our people, and all people.

    • @anituzman
      @anituzman Před 9 měsíci

      I very much appreciate your comment. Thank you.