Winter 2022: The Rest Issue

Inside the issue: In a staff Responsa, the editors confront the tension between anti-work politics and the labor of political struggle in light of the practice of Shabbat. Erik Baker calls on the left to fight for a right to grieve. In a manifesto from the threatened Atlanta forest, the Fayer Collective explores the relationship between Shmita and destruction. In our new Chevruta column, in which activists and Torah scholars use Jewish texts to probe timely ethical and political questions, The Debt Collective joins Allen Lipson to ask: "What is debt and when can we refuse to pay?" An essay by Avi Garelick, illustrated by Solomon Brager, traces the intertwined histories of the fights for Jewish workers to be able to observe Shabbat and for all workers to have a weekend. Maryam Ivette Parhizkar reflects on the! sleeplessness of new motherhood. Liz Bowen profiles the artist Johanna Hedva, whose work confronts illness and death as a means of challenging capitalist coercions. Lyudmyla Khers