Resources

The death penalty ultimately becomes a lethal political tool, particularly for election campaigns. “Deterrence,” “retributive justice,” and “proportional justice” can become veils for vengeance; revenge does not bring closure to victims’ loved ones.

Our toolkit enables you to recruit people in your community to sign up to become a poll worker.

Akiva had to do the terrifying work of giving up the narrative … that we are always just, and we are always right, for a newer, truer one: We are sometimes unjust, and we are sometimes wrong.

What America means for [Emma Lazarus] in [“The New Colossus"] … is an utter repudiation of the scapegoating and demonizing of immigrants that America has seen so much of recently.

Moses could have handed the Torah to Joshua and called his work done. Instead, he makes sure it belongs to everyone who will need it, including those whose voices are too often left out of the room.

It is not enough to say “treat marginalized people fairly;” the simple absence of unfairness doesn’t make us welcoming. Instead, we must examine the roots of injustice and take active steps to create change.

An abiding concern for human rights, and for upholding the inherent dignity of even the poorest among us, has been a key feature of the Jewish tradition, originating with this Torah verse and carrying into the present day.

Power corrupts even exceptionally just people, especially those responsible for holding even more powerful people and systems accountable. God and Moses… are not interested in building a society that is reliant on a select few righteous people; they are concerned with creating an infrastructure immune to human fallibility.

A messaging guide for rabbis and cantors.

To live re’eh anochi is not to pretend that danger, hatred, or difference do not exist. It is to refuse to let fear have the final word. It is to keep choosing… presence over retreat, curiosity over certainty.