This Week in the Racist Kurtzer-Hartman Institute (6/6)
David Shasha
The Racist Shalom Hartman Institute (1): We Have Responses!
In case you missed, it, last March I posted an article on SHI and its journal Sources:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/JzUAVI6fgFI/m/I70thXGKCAAJ
Our dear friends Yehuda Kurtzer and Mijal Bitton did their respective shtick on Pluralism and Sexism in Judaism:
https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/what-happened-tojewish-pluralism
https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/is-jewish-continuity-sexist
“Pluralism” means White Jewish Supremacy, “Sexism” apparently has something to do with Jewish “Continuity.”
On Tuesday we got responses to the two articles:
https://www.sourcesjournal.org/response-jewish-continuity-and-jewish-destiny-its-not-just-about-you
I will not enter into the fray, only to note that Sarah Rindner is full-on Tikvah:
https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/sarah-rindner/
The responses to the Kurtzer racism are equally racist:
https://www.sourcesjournal.org/response-wholeness-and-brokenness?mc_cid=3b2db84158&mc_eid=ce188d0296
Both authors are Ashkenazim, and have nothing to say about Sephardim.
Benay Lappe is a female rabbi of, apparently, some renown – at least in SHI circles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benay_Lappe
Her SVARA bio tells a wonderful White Jewish Supremacist story:
https://svara.org/about-rabbi-lappe/
That is true Intersectionality!
It is worth citing the following passage from her article:
Standing as I do in the midst of one of these spaces at SVARA, a traditionally radical yeshiva dedicated to the serious study of Talmud through the lens of queer experiences, I can attest to their power and the extent to which the Jewish future will be—and is already being—shaped by its members. Somewhere between one-third and one-half of Gen Z identify as queer. With compelling queer-inflected Jewish spaces available to them in the new center, there is one thing we can already say about the Jewish future: if the next generation is going to show up for it—and it will only survive if they do—then that Jewish future is going to be very queer. It will center uncompromising values of feminism, Black liberation, disability justice, gender justice, rejecting heteronormativity, and a culture and worldview that do not negotiate on their commitments to equity, justice, and the undermining of oppressive systems.
It is another shameful example of White Jewish Supremacy from the mouths of those racist Ashkenazim who think they are “Progressives.”
I believe they call that CHUTZPAH.
The Racist Shalom Hartman Institute (2): “Learning to Listen” – to Other Ashkenazim!
And on Wednesday, we got yet another racist SHI gem:
https://mailchi.mp/shi.org.il/identitycrisis-podcast-288192?e=ce188d0296
We need to “Learn How to Listen”!
From Yehuda Kurtzer and two other Ashkenazim:
In this episode of the Identity/Crisis podcast, Yona Shem-Tov and Leah Solomon of Encounter join host Yehuda Kurtzer to talk about what's simple and what's complicated about the ongoing conflict in Israel. What are Israeli and American Jews not seeing? How can we be better listeners as Israelis and Palestinians navigate the unsustainable present and a complicated future?
The two other Ashkenazim lead a White Jewish Supremacy institution called Encounter:
http://www.encounterprograms.org/our-team/
Here is their “Community”:
http://www.encounterprograms.org/our_community/
See if you can catch the drift of it.
It is clear that they are not “encountering” any Sephardim.
Who exactly is “Learning to Listen”?
The Racist Shalom Hartman Institute (3): The Pew Report White Jewish Supremacy in Action!
Closing out the week was a Whites-only discussion of the new Pew Report:
https://mailchi.mp/shi.org.il/heavens-sake-podcast-288212?e=ce188d0296
“The Return of American Jewish Vulnerability” means that Sephardic have no say in the discussion:
Many have long taken one aspect of Jewish life for granted: the safety of American Jewry. But now antisemitism is back at the center of the American Jewish agenda. Assaults against Jews are on the rise, and some are even afraid to display Jewish symbols publicly. Listen as Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi and Elana Stein Hain discuss a responsible Jewish approach to vulnerability and power.
Elana Stein Hain, a very Ashkenazi name, says it best:
"Can you actually have a movement that reckons with injustice yet doesn’t perpetrate further injustice? To me that is a vexing human question…can you try to fight injustice without causing new injustices?"
It is not a vexing question whether or not to be a White Jewish Supremacist!
That is understood at SHI.
David Shasha