We open this issue of Chidusz with four blank pages. This is our protest against the unfair distribution of government subsidies. The Department of National and Ethnic Minorities did not grant any subsidies for publishing Chidusz in 2023
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Chidusz 9/2022: Feminist anti-Judaism and the secrets of Joseph Opatoshu’s bedroom
Read what we write about in the current Polish-language issue of Chidusz
Chidusz 8/2022: In Polish Woods [a serialised novel]
In Polish Woods is possibly the most beautiful novel about Polish-Jewish relations. We hope that this trilogy by Joseph Opatoshu, published in instalments from this issue on, will make for a comfort read in the coming autumn evenings
Chidusz 7/2022: Eichmann in Buenos Aires and the Bible that discriminates
Read what we write about in the current Polish-language issue of Chidusz
Sabina of Lviv
“If you really need to know, I will tell you about my family. Just know, I am not fond of doing it nor want to remember,” said my grandmother, looking at me with disapproval. (…) my curiosity arose 20 years earlier when I met her sister Gina in Chicago. On her tiny arm one could see the Auschwitz camp tattoo. Over the years nobody explained anything to me.
Chidusz 6/2022: Male Theology and Women’s Experience
On the new cover of Chidusz synagogue becomes an exclusively female space. Women occupy all the downstairs seats. Balconies, on the other hand, are left empty. The service is led by a female rabbi. The artwork illustrates ideas from two essays by an outstanding Jewish feminist theologian Judith Plaskow in which she helps us understand why we should distance ourselves from the male God language and imagery used as a tool of exclusion of women from Jewish religious life.
Jewish Crisis Management Team
At night, someone called that a mother with four children had been suddenly left homeless because the landlord had “changed his plans”. The woman did not know what was happening. When Lesław found her, she was standing on the pavement. The children were clinging to her, not even saying a word. Looking completely absent,…
Chidusz 5/2022: Lilith, Eve and Judith Plasow’s Jewish Feminist Theology
Lilith and Eve There was nothing worse for Lilith (the first wife of Adam, according to a rabbinic legend) than living with her husband. So she decided to run away. And so God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and out, of one of his ribs, created for him a second companion, Eve. …
Chidusz 4/2022: The Jewish Crisis Centre
The Jewish Crisis Centre This month’s cover is an artistic vision of people working to help refugees in the White Building, next to Nożyków Synagogue, at 6 Twarda Street in Warsaw. It was there, after the events of the 24th of February, that the Jewish Crisis Centre was established. The newly-created body helps, on a…
Chidusz 3/2022: Women Communists in the Warsaw Ghetto and a Very Inappropriate Kind of Sex
Since Spring 2018, we have published several dozen essays by leading progressive rabbis and Jewish thinkers interpreting the Bible through a queer lense. In this issue, David Brodsky spins the fascinating tale of the rabbis’ centuries-old debate on anal sex.