Shane Burley is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author, editor, or co-author of four books, including 2024’s Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism (Melville House Books). His work has been featured in places like NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, Haaretz, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, In These Times, Oregon Humanities and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. You can find him on X @shane_burley2, on Instagram @shaneburley, and on Bluesky @shaneburley.bsky.social.
Halakhah is in the doing, and our ability to pass that practice down to the next Jewish generation depends on whether or not we can give it the significance it had for the lives of our ancestors.
Is antisemitism eternal and inevitable?
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
