Sightings Articles

Two men flank Moses as he sits and holds up a rod in this black and white illustration

Judaism | Memory | Trauma | Israel

Emptying the Arsenals of Memory

The gap between contemporary and ancient conceptions of memory lie at the heart of the challenge in understanding Israeli and Jewish perspectives on October 7 and its aftermath....

November 30, 2023
Black man with cigarette in hand looking pensively off to the right

Trauma | ethics | James Baldwin

James Baldwin and the Cost of Community

Denying that there is persistent brokenness in the world, we have concluded that everything wrong comes from structures that rest on ideologies we oppose. ...

November 9, 2023