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Acharei Mot – Kedoshim: What Does It Mean to Be Holy? 

Holiness is not about attaining some kind of moral and spiritual perfection, but rather cultivating the ability to see and respond to the opportunities to live up to our highest ideals, to build that quality of readiness to meet each moment as it comes.

Capitol Building at sunset

“May We Create a Nation”: A New Prayer for Our Country

From Rabbi Seth Goldstein: We know that this is a nation founded by massacre, built by slavery, maintained by exclusion, defined by inequality. And we also know that this nation promises equality, exercises resilience, evolves continuously, practices teshuvah.

Lag BaOmer: From Mourning into Action

Rabbi Elana Nemitoff-Bresler on how thinking of Lag BaOmer as the end of shloshim also reminds us that we have to move from grief into action.

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Acharei Mot – Kedoshim: What Does It Mean to Be Holy? 

by Rabbi Jonah Winer
Holiness is not about attaining some kind of moral and spiritual perfection, but rather cultivating the ability to see and respond to the opportunities to live up to our highest ideals, to build that quality of readiness to meet each moment as it comes.
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Yom HaAtzma’ut: What Is Freedom For?

by Rabbi Amelia Wolf
Freedom is never an end, nor is independence, nor is sovereignty. They are modes of existing in this world that allow us the ability to choose how we act. Are we free of Pharaoh only to set up new Pharaohs of our own? Have we achieved independence and sovereignty only to deny it to others? Have we been released from Egypt to serve ourselves?
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Yom HaShoah: When Human Rights Become “Too Political”

by Cantor Michael Zoosman
I pledge to continue the call to recognize the sanctity of life for all human beings. I vow never to be silent in the face of oppression — no matter how “political” it may seem to some.
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Pesach: On Moving from a Place of Fear to a Place of Love

by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
Passover is centrally about the possibility that in a moment, things can radically change. Yet, simultaneously, radical change cannot magically stay with us. No event lasts without an intention to integrate its lessons.
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Pesach: A Labor-Intensive Passover

by Rabbi Preston ‘Pesach’ D. Neimeiser
Labor is an intersectional value. Our identity as workers must be as indispensable to us as that of once having been slaves in Egypt.
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Yom HaAtzma’ut: A Resource for Educators

This resource has been created ahead of Yom HaAtzma’ut 2025 but is designed to be adaptable for year-round use, offering educational tools, programs, and texts that support ongoing learning within your community.
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Vayikra: Learning We Were Wrong

by Rabbi Noah Arnow
May we hear and take seriously others’ observations of us that we have erred, and may we admit our errors, when we realize them. May our leaders take seriously their obligation to examine their own actions, and to admit and take responsibility for their unwitting mistakes.
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A person wearing a kippah that says end the war.

A Prayer for Gaza and to Preserve Our Humanity

by Rabbi Felicia Sol and Rabbi Roly Matalon
By Rabbis Felicia Sol and Roly Matalon of B’nai Jeshurun in New York City.
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Pekudei: Learning From, Not Erasing, Our Broken Tablets

by Rabbi Elyse Wechterman
The administration is tearing apart the historical narrative of the United States, denying the verifiable truth that more people have been left out of the American dream than included in it, that brutality had a role in building this country, and that we have inherited both the gloriousness of the nation’s founding ideas and the shame of our failure to live up to them.
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Vayakhel: Rejecting Idolatry to Find Our Faces

by Rabbi Michael Bernstein
Repair takes intention and responsibility, while destruction requires nothing but the will to destroy and the means to do it.
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