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Who We Are and Who We Can Become: Jewish Storytelling and Democratic Imagination

JL;DR SUMMARY Rebecca Leviss, founder of the Judeo-Futurism Project, explores the intersection of Jewish storytelling and democratic imagination within the context of rising authoritarianism and antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AuthoritarianismJewish CommunitiesAmerican DemocracyJewish StorytellingHistorical ComplexityDemocratic ImaginationBackwards Looking TrapFear Based Futures FrameworkNarrative Abundance

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Hawaii, United States
"I began my time at Harvard Divinity School in September 2023 eager to explore faith's role in creating infrastructures of values, relationships, and narratives that make this kind of imagination and long-term building possible."
United States
"For many US Jews raised this way, it is hard to distinguish criticism of Israel from existential threat, and even harder to access Palestinian humanity."

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