The Hamsa Flag (Second Edition)
by Tom Haviv I first published the Hamsa Flag essay in the inaugural issue of PROTOCOLS in the summer of 2017. Almost two years later, the need for this project, and projects like it, feels even more pressing. On a daily basis, we see our ancestral and cultural...
Open Letter by Latinx Jews: Let Our People Go
Open Letter from Latinx Jews: We know this moment in history, and we will not stay silent. Let Our People Go.
Mimouna: Sweets and Solidarity
This Saturday evening April 27th / 23 Nisan, as Passover comes to an end, the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) Mizrahi/Sephardi Caucus will host a leftist community Mimouna in Brooklyn, NY. Mimouna is a North African Jewish tradition, in which families...
The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah
Haggadah by Reuven Abergel English translation by Itamar Haritan In 1971, members of the Israeli Black Panthers, a group inspired by the US Black Panther Party and organizing against anti-Mizrahi racism in Israel, created the following Haggadah to share their...
Palestinian Prisoners Day: What do you know about Administrative Detention?
For Palestinian Prisoner’s Day Unruly is sharing the following infographics produced by Palestinian prisoner advocacy group Addameer on the topic of indefinite administrative detention without charge in Israeli prisons. You can support Palestinian prisoners by...
Red Sea: April 2002
by Aurora Levins Morales Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales This Passover, who reclines? Only the dead, their cupped hands filling slowly with the red wine of war. We are not free. The blood on the doorposts does not protect anyone. They say that other country over... How to make tishpishti
by Danny Bryck 1. Tell everyone that you’re making tishpishti for the Mizrahi/Sephardi Community Seder, ishala. 2. Now you have to make it, because ishala is just a figure of speech in a dying language. 3. Go around to every grocery store in the neighborhood...I wrote that Rosh Hashanah poem
By Danny Bryck The chill breaks through in earnest It rains The trees hint a few leaves yellowish as if to say, “On the other hand…” My facebook feed fills up with pomegranates My mind makes the same little joke to itself, about what if 5779 could be like 1979...