Reluctant Prophets: Reading the Book of Jonah as a Queer Jew of Color
On Yom Kippur, it is customary to hear the Book of Jonah chanted as the haftarah for the afternoon service. In the book, the eponymous Jonah is tasked by G-d to deliver a prophecy to the people of the city of Nineveh: they are behaving wickedly, and if they do…
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