Two years ago on June 29, 2009, in the middle of the night, Honduras’s democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped at gunpoint in a military coup d’état and sent to neighboring Costa Rica. Before his ousting, Zelaya planned to follow through on a public referendum to reform the Constitution by extending the maximum term …
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Text with Texture is a weekly blog series (featured on Tuesdays) that explores the rich and textured material found in On1Foot in connection with what’s happening in our world today. Working at a non-profit, I think a lot about generosity—with money and with time. Here at AJWS, we depend on our supporters to give us …
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This AJWS series on storytelling and justice is guest edited by Deji Olukotun. Judaism relishes a good story. The Torah, Judaism’s anchor text, bubbles over with stories—stories of love, stories of betrayal, stories of conquest, stories of loss. Writing centuries later, the rabbis continued to use stories as a powerful medium through which to teach …
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