Virginia Avniel Spatz

Virginia Avniel Spatz’s writing and audio/video programs

plus learning and organizing links.

Addressing Carcerality

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Jews, Judaism, & Carcerality

stock of beat up books, titled: Godwrestling, Worship and Ethics, For Times Such as These

More Jewish Wrestling and Writing

This writing hub was recently reorganized to reflect an effort to imagine “What if…“

What if we lived as though everyone deserved basic liberty?

What will a more abolitionist-focused lens teach us about our history and our future?

What if Jews took more direct responsibility, in learning and action, to live into the aspect of the divine Who Frees the Captives?

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Spatz Reads Bookshop — buying through this portal supports independent booksellers and this author

commercial strip including deli and other small, local businesses, on Minnesota Avenue, NE, in DC (2010, before redevelopment)

Journalism / Opinion

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About the author

A few posts, recent and not-so-recent…

From ReReading4Liberation — Retelling Exodus Experiments, work-in-progress shared here for the Passover-Shavuot season 5785 in hope of sparking steps toward Liberation for all.

From SongEveryDay — “I ask how?!” a Psalms-and-Star Trek meditation and “Unpaid Debts, Violence, and Rain,” originally posted for the close of the festival of Sukkkot this past fall.

Enterprise pilot Erica Ortegas in uniform at her station, flying the ship (SNW: SE204)

Image is selection from source sheet on prayer for rain and gezel: robbery, wrong, oppression

"The Thinker" bookend, short-haired figure with head resting on chin, in conversation with small gargoyle, winged creature with one hand resting on face

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