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Rabbi Shais Rishon speaks at a rally in New York City, January 2020. (Gili Getz via JTA) JTA — In the first chapter of Rabbi Shais Rishon’s new Torah commentary, the voices of ancient rabbis mingle with contemporary poets and, at one point, with “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson. It’s all part of Rishon’s attempt at writing a text “that is firmly traditional/Orthodox, but with a modern and non-myopic lens on race and gender,” as he put it in the description of a Kickstarter campaign that recently raised $11,500, more than twice his goal. The commentary, titled “In ...

Rabbi Shais Rishon speaks at a rally in New York City, January 2020. (Gili Getz via JTA) (JTA) — In the first chapter of Rabbi Shais Rishon’s new Torah commentary, the voices of ancient rabbis mingle with contemporary poets and, at one point, with “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson. It’s all part of Rishon’s attempt at writing a text “that is firmly traditional/Orthodox, but with a modern and non-myopic lens on race and gender,” as he put it in the description of a Kickstarter campaign that recently raised $11,500, more than twice his goal. The commentary, titled “In...

In Rabbi Shais Rishon’s new Torah commentary, the voices of ancient rabbis mingle with contemporary poets.

In this book of Torah commentary, written by a Black Orthodox Jew, the voices of ancient rabbis mingle with contemporary poets and even “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson.