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"I recently asked a group of religious school students what their favorite Passover food was. Unsurprisingly, many answered with the usual suspects: matzah ball soup, chocolate-covered matzah, and so on. But a few shouted out a surprising answer: parsley dipped in salt water."

We know the heart of the stranger and we cannot allow ourselves to lose sight of these people, or allow statistics to blur them and their lives into a faceless “issue.”

Through this new haggadah supplement from T’ruah, bring the fight for immigration justice into your seder.  

Importantly, when Judaism is an embodied practice, both a halacha (law) and a halicha (way of walking), it leaves less room for holding the cognitive dissonance that separates one’s system of ethics from their Judaism.

"I left Minneapolis inspired in many ways, most of all feeling called to approach immigration with an abundance mindset."

As a Correctional Chaplain, I work with kindred spirits, among staff and Inmates, who are striving to live meaningful lives, confronting negativity within and without, and transforming themselves and their society.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs explores how Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel's words might form the basis for a new approach to Zionism and to Israel that can lead us toward a political solution.

Should you ever be tempted to be like Amalek — blot out that very thought. Remember your humanity. Do not forget that to be a Jew is to be a light unto nations, not a threat.

Recently, I attended an anti-ICE protest near my home. Our government’s recent methods of terrorizing immigrants feel deeply at odds with the democratic values that I want my country to live by. As I approached, the first thing I saw was a large Palestinian flag; closer in, several protest leaders were wearing keffiyehs. In the...

Torah does not ask us to confuse legality with righteousness. It challenges us to investigate whether our laws serve the most vulnerable, honor human dignity, and reflect the divine spark that exists within every human being.