Resources
![Photo of the author, Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Rabbi-Lev-Meirowitz-Nelson-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Sh’lach-Lecha: Israel/Palestine Buddy Cop Edition
Perhaps this midrash holds out a hope that any of us can be transformed to meet the needs of the moment. And perhaps we can find a way to change the course of today’s story so it does not have to end in wholesale destruction.
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![Photo of the author, Claire Davidson Bruder](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Claire-Davidson-Bruder-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Beha’alotecha: Be One Among the 70
Community knowledge is the strongest tool we have, and we must learn how to both respect and harness it. When we seek to make change in the world, we must ask ourselves: Who might know what needs to happen even better than I do?
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![Photo of the author, Yael Marans](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Yael-Marans-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Naso: The Burdens We Cannot See
For me, acknowledging what I cannot see lies at the heart of community building. It helps me feel connected to the humanity of people in my circles and in the broader world, as ultimately the invisible heaviness of experience is one of the things that I know to be true of being human.
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![Photo of the author, Rabbi Lana Zilberman Soloway](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rabbi-Lana-Zilberman-SolowayPortrait-Sizer.jpg)
Bamidbar: Lispor and Lesaper
We have been counting the days since October 7, counting the unbearable number of lost lives, counting the number of hostages, counting the number of people who became refugees in their own land. We count and we count and we count. And we tell a story. Each and every one of us.
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![Photo of the author, Rabbi Michal Woll](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rabbi-Michal-Woll-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Bechukotai: God and Us Under Stress
[Unders stress,] we are often functioning far from our cores, where we can access our unique strengths and talents, offer our best selves, and hear – and perhaps even seek – other voices.
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Criticism of Israel and Antisemitism: How to Tell Where One Ends and the Other Begins
In this time of inflamed passions, it’s crucial both to ensure that criticism of Israel does not cross the line into antisemitism, and to protect the free speech of those protesting Israel’s actions.
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Behar: Getting from Here to There
We are returning from the mountain to the plains; from our highest ideals to the practicalities of daily living; from the most fundamental expression of holiness to where we are now.
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![Photo of the author, Rabbi Ariel Tovlev](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rabbi-Ariel-Tovlev-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Emor: Peace Has No Sides
The path of peace is not an easy one; it cuts through the binary of right or wrong, victim or oppressor, hero or villain, us or them. The path of peace does not choose favorites, does not leverage one over another, does not create hierarchies. The path of peace has no sides.
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![Photo of the author, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rabbi-Danya-Ruttenberg-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Kedoshim: Love Thy Neighbor, Not Thy Empire
How we love our neighbor is by fighting for a society in which we would be glad to live no matter how little privilege we had.
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Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzma’ut 2024 (and beyond)
This resource offers guidance for educators on where to start and some factors to consider. It is not a program in a box but rather an approach to planning whatever program your community needs.
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