Reckoning with Climate Change in Egypt and Today We have enough warning signs, enough extreme climate names. Let us not be Pharaohs on the way to deaths in every household. read more
Our Mishkan — Who Is In and Who is Barred Entry? Our basic freedoms are under attack. The authoritarian extremists pushing these laws are saying that only they qualify to be in the Mishkan. read more
Remembering the Workers in the Field CIW’s Fair Food Program beautifully illustrates Deuteronomy’s call of zachor, to remember to push back against those who oppress the rights of others. read more
Reading the Exodus as a Migration Story If America is to be the land of the free, a melting pot of diversity and equality, it too must clear the stones from the proverbial roads and build up pathways for immigrants, especially refugees and asylum-seekers. read more
Behar-Bechukotai: Proclaiming Dror Throughout the Land ...modern American politics have alienated the word dror from the Jewish concept of liberty. read more
Shavuot: Revelation in Montgomery We are called to elevate the difficult truths, and sometimes our complicity in them, in order to “lift them up” for tikkun — for fixing. read more
Chukat-Balak: Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of Others I like to imagine that Balaam’s words changed us and shook us out of our complaining so that we could see ourselves in a fresh way. read more
Pinchas: Finding God in Moments of Despair We find in our tradition that God dwells not in the destruction, but in the moment right before rebuilding. read more
Matot-Masei: Seeing the Good Through the Lens of Our Own Identities ...let us strive to learn from Zelophechad’s daughters, seeking good wherever we can find it. read more
Devarim: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Diaspora Israel is too important for us to throw up our hands and turn away, just because it feels like we’re losing. Israel needs us and we need them. read more