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CelesteMarcus
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Managing editor @ Liberties Journal Writing a biography of Chaim Soutine Art for sale I have a weekly torah portion newsletter, DM if you'd like to receive it
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Jun 2
I wrote about the American Jew's unique responsibility to oppose Israeli illiberalism
Feels particularly relevant today - liberalism is the only system that Jews could trust to keep us safe. It is cratering from both ends and we are assisting in its demise.
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 3d
Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.”

A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...

Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.

#writing #philosophy #spirituality
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Judith Hertog @jbher.bsky.social · 3d
My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties. 
I wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope? 

Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Shangri-La: October Seventh, 2023
I was in Shangri-La, in a village in the Tibetan Himalayas on October 7th, 2023. More precisely, I was in the Shangri-La tourism zone of Yunnan, a popular Chinese travel destination marketed as the “t...
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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 3d
Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
The High Art of Distance - Liberties
“Art, of course, lives in history,” said Elizabeth Hardwick. By which she meant that a novel emerges in its own time, and changes in its passage to our own. This — the likeness which is also an unlike...
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 11d
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11d
Yas!! 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼🤩❤️
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 11d
BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 11d
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 11d
use code SOUTINE20 at checkout :) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/celes...
Chaim Soutine
A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art wor...
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 11d
BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 12d
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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 24d
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The Other Obliteration: 
A Report from the West Bank - Liberties
In August of last year a video was posted on X by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem in which four masked settlers, three of them wielding clubs, can be seen walking onto a Palestinian man...
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 13d
from @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's Master of Contradictions
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 22d
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Trump's Gaza Plan, Palestinian Authority's immiseration, and Political Realism (Recorded 9/5/25)
Podcast Episode · Not A Dialogue · 09/05/2025 · 31m
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 22d
Listen to Not A Dialogue wherever you get your podcasts
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readliberties.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social · 24d
Join Morten Høi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 24d
Imagine viewing a child’s dreams as a threat.

The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israel’s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Gov't says it will cut Film Academy funding after film 'depicting Israel negatively' wins
Claiming That the Film 'Defames' Israeli Soldiers, Israel's Culture Minister Announced the Withdrawal of Government Funding for the Ophir Awards After the 'Embarrassing Ceremony'. The Film, The Sea, T...
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readliberties.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social · Sep 7
We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 5
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The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine
The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 5
From Ihab Hassan's recent essay for @readliberties.bsky.social
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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · Sep 3
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The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine
The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...
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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · Sep 3
'The people of Gaza have never been in greater need of international intervention. They need help— not only from Israel, from Hamas too. Recognizing a Palestinian State is not a reward for violence; it is the conclusion of a sincere dedication to statecraft.'

libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine
The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 3
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The End of Terror And The Establishment of Palestine
The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time.  Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politi...
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 3
"It is possible for bleeding worlds to be buried and forgotten. It is possible for hope and political prudence to fuse and forge a future worth living for, a future of hope, a future where children expect the sun to rise and set without the sounds of sirens or the sight of bludgeoned corpses."
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