ger גר

writings on strangerhood and the Jewish future


Origins

The eyes of Abraham
The Letters Speak
What is a Ger?
Strangers, Dependents, Selves
Who was the first Ger?

Divergence

Self as stranger, G-d as Stranger
What is Stranger Judaism?
Conversion and free will
Conversion and doubt
Toldot Ger

Multiplicity

The Particularity of the Universal
Choosing and Chosenness
The Eyes of Hagar

Story

My Dad was a Lost Aramean
Halakhah and the Ger: an impossible precis

A stranger among the nations
Power and Change
Gerim as mystical GPS

Collapse

The Law has Crashed
The Best Little Convert in the World
Who is and is not an Ivri and why this actually matters
In Praise of the Uncanny

Reinvention

Gerim in 6786: an update
Will we ever run out of sparks?
The Out-gathering

Stirring

Ivrim, Gerim and Yehudim
The Impermanence of Borders
Who were we now?

Dispersion

Chutzpah
Intermarriage
Am Israel as a Family of Choice?
Gates And their Keepers

Return

A Warning Against Ancestor Essentialism
Story as Identity

Holy Fandoms
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