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This podcast is the audio version of an infographic created for Instagram, with minor tweaks to formatting. It is meant to serve as a jumping off point for research, as one post can only hold so much. We encourage you to check out the citations. There was so much that simply couldn’t be covered in such a short post; not to mention a breadth of research that feels like it should be must read material for this topic.

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Article: https://jewitches.com/blogs/blog/christian-zionism-101

Citations:

Sturm, Tristan. “God’s just Gaza War: Futurity foreclosed through evangelical apocalypse as orthogonal promise of Eretz Israel.” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, vol. 103, no. 4, 2021, pp. 301–319, https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2021.1891557. “A Land without a People for a People without a Land” By Diana Muir

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rapture-the https://cufi.org/about/mission/

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/the-size-of-the-u-s-jewish-population/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/30/mainstreaming-christian-zionism-could-warp-foreign-policy/

https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/factsheets/factsheet-christian-zionism/

https://apnews.com/article/christian-zionists-israel-republican-presidential-candidates-97a5bd9359a9af724fb55cfb154007ef

https://cufi.org/issue/mike-pence-to-cufi-i-support-israel-because-i-am-a-christian/

http://www.meforum.org/1877/a-land-without-a-people-for-a-people-without

https://fozmuseum.com/blog/bolsonaro-receives-award/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/26/biden-palestine-and-the-buttressing-of-christian-zionism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/22/trump-sees-all-us-jews-israelis-because-his-christian-zionist-allies-do-too/

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/u-s-jews-political-views/#:~:text=Overall%2C%20about%20seven%2Din%2D,or%20lean%20toward%20the%20GOP.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doubles-down-calling-jewish-democrats-disloyal-israel-n1044861

They told you that you shouldn't study Kabbalah until you're forty...But I'm here to break this down because the lack of nuance (and general Christian-hegemonic paradigms we carry with us) means that we interpret this in strange ways..

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As long as we have been dreaming, we have been wondering what they could mean. Today we dive into dream divination, interpretation, and dream work with incredible guest, Rabbi Jill Hammer, PHD. Co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute and the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, her most recent books are Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams and Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah. You may also know her from her book with Taya Shere: The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership.

Sources:

Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of DreamStudies in Jewish Dream Interpretation

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream
2. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dreams
3. https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5311-dreams
4. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/dreams-dream-interpretation/
5. Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis’ Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism,
6. HAMORI, ESTHER J. “The Prophet and the Necromancer: Women’s Divination for Kings.” Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 132, no. 4, 2013, pp. 827–43. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/42912469. Accessed 24 May 2022.
7. Daniel and the “Prophetization” of Dream Divination
8. Sefaria
9. https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.32.14?ven=Torah_Yesharah,_translated_and_edited_by_Chas._Kahane._New_York,_1963&vhe=Miqra_according_to_the_Masorah&lang=en&with=Radak&lang2=en
10. “All the Dreams Follow the Mouth”: Dreamers and Interpreters in Rabbinic Literature Haim Weiss
11. Jewish magic & superstition
12. The Jewish Dream Book: the Key to Opening the Inner Meaning of Your Dreams. Vanessa L. Ochs, with Elizabeth Ochs

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While UnderTorah was gifted to me free of charge, all opinions are my own.

In today’s long-awaited episode, we will be debunking common myths and misconceptions about Ostara! We separate fact from fiction and explore the true origins of the holiday, going back to the 725 with the monk Bede. We discuss everything from the significance of eggs and rabbits in Christian mythology to why Easter is definitely not stolen from the Goddess Ishtar.

To help us with this discussion, we have invited a special guest, A Hearth Witch, who is a German-American folk practitioner and scholar specializing in the study and practice of German Folk practices. You can find their work at their Patreon (https://patreon.com/ahearthwitch), TikTok (tiktok.com/ahearthwitch), Instagram (instagram.com/a.hearth.witch), and YouTube (youtube.com/ahearthwitch).

Citations:

1. Modern Pagan Festivals: A Study in the Nature of Tradition Author(s): Ronald Hutton Source: Folklore, Vol. 119, No. 3 (December 2008), pp. 251-273 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646468
2. Pagan Goddesses In The Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons; Philip A Shaw
3. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aidankelly/2017/05/naming-ostara-litha-mabon/
4. https://sittingbetweentworivers.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/a-brief-history-of-ostara/#f11
5. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/panmankey/2018/04/why-we-believe-in-untrue-things/
6. https://dbpedia.org/page/Ostara_(magazine)
7. https://ia904701.us.archive.org/0/items/UnknownOstara152ndSeries/Ostara_01.pdf
8. https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-easter-wasnt-named-after-a-mesopotamian-goddess/
9. https://www3.nd.edu/~pantsakl/Archive/dateofeaster.pdf
10. Newall, Venetia. An Egg at Easter: A Folklore Study. Routlege & Paul, 1984.
11. Bede’s a Reckoning on Time
12. Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology

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ISTOR, page 786:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965085?seq=27