During the High Holidays This Year, We Are Reaching Toward an Abolition Judaism

“Judeo Christian values” are having a real moment. Whether lionizing Charlie Kirk’s legacy or trying to stop Zohran Mamdani’s momentum, right-wing leaders across the United States, Israel , and beyond have been invoking the term to include Jews in the ongoing political project of expanding domination at home and abroad .

The undeniable drumbeat of American Jewish opposition to the genocide in Gaza grows louder. But “Judeo-Christian values” keep most Jewish-American institutions cemented to Israel. Carceral logics unite their Zionism with support for the prison-industrial complex as a “solution” to the capitalist production of sacrifice zones and surplus populations — and to antisemitic violence . It’s understandable that many Jews have fears about safety when reading reports