America at 250: Jewish Ideas and the American Experiment
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this series explores the rich and surprising intersections between Jewish thought and American life. From baseball and youth culture to constitutional law, storytelling, and democratic theory, leading scholars reveal how Jewish ideas, texts, and experiences have shaped鈥攁nd been shaped by鈥攖he American experiment. Sources for sessions can be […]
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Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership
There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussein Rashid and Rabbi Gordon Tucker bring Muslim and Jewish texts into dialogue to explore how religious traditions resist transactional relationships with the earth and with one another. Drawing on the sabbatical vision from Leviticus and a Muslim sources on overtaxation, they reflect on restraint, renewal, and the dangers of extraction. Timed with converging sacred moments鈥攖he beginning of the Jewish calendar, Persian New Year, and the close of Ramadan鈥攖his session offers a shared language for ethical living in a fragile world.
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