About Us
Radical Torah is a weblog which features multiple takes on parshat hashavua (the weekly Torah portion), as well as commentaries on holidays, rituals and various concepts in Judaism, as seen through the lens of progressive religious and political viewpoints.
The project seeks to provide a resource of authentically Jewish responses to pertinent social justice issues, timed in accordance with their relevancy to the Jewish calendar. Browsable by parsha, topic, holiday, and Hebrew calendar month, the goal is to put “radical Torah” at the fingertips of the Jewish social action community for which there are limited resources available on- and offline.
Conceived by the creator of Jewschool.com, the web’s leading progressive Jewish weblog, Radical Torah is a project of Matzat and an outgrowth of The Open Source Judaism Project.
Editors
Daniel Sieradski, founding editor
Sarah Chandler, interim editor-in-chief
Contributors
Wendy Love Anderson, Ph.D. (St. Louis U.)
Elyssa Joy Auster (Hebrew College, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs)
Rabbi Andy Bachman (Brooklyn Jews)
Aviel Barclay (Soferet)
Rachel Barenblat (Author Velveteen Rabbi, Rab. Student ALEPH)
Daniel Burstyn (Kibbutz Lotan)
Rabbi Jill Hammer (Tel Shemesh)
Rabbi Jill Jacobs (Jewish Funds for Justice)
Shoshana Jedwab (The Heschel School)
Shaul David Judelman (Bat Ayin, Simchat Shlomo)
Rabbi Levi Lauer (ATZUM)
Rabbi Michael Lerner (Tikkun)
Jay Michaelson (Nehirim, Zeek Magazine)
Nati Passow (Teva Learning Center and Jewish Farm School)
Bradford R. Pilcher (Atlanta Jewish Life)
Rabbi David Rosenn (Avodah)
Rabbi Brant Rosen (Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) & Shalom Rav)
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (Yakar UK)
Danya Ruttenberg (Editor Yentl’s Revenge, Rab. Student University of Judaism)
Rabbi David Seidenberg (COEJL, Neohasid.org)
David Sheen
Brent Chaim Spodek (Rab. Student JTS, American Jewish World Service)
Andy Shugerman (Rab. Student University of Judaism)
Rabbi Alana Suskin (Jews United for Justice, Rabbis for Human Rights NA)
Rabbi Arthur Waskow (The Shalom Center)