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Tirdof New York City Budget Justice Teach-In
Join Tirdof, JFREJ, and the B'nai Jeshurun community for a Budget Justice Teach-In. Together, we'll learn about the NYC budget process, and how we can organize for housing and immigration justice in our city.
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Velcro, Leather, & String: Towards A New Understanding of Gender and Embodied Mitzvot
“And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, YHVH your God will maintain faithfully for you the covenant…” (Deuteronomy 7:12) “Therefore impress these My words upon your very heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead…” (Deuteronomy 11:18) “That shall be...
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Housing Solutions Rally with NYC Progressive City Caucus
As the July 1 deadline for the City budget approaches, now is the time for Mayor Adams to invest in affordable housing that will let more New Yorkers stay in their homes and stay in this city.
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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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Leadership Lessons at the Foot of the Mountain
In today’s world, rabbis face the challenge of balancing multiple roles in their communal leadership; a rabbi seeks to “comfort the afflicted,” by being a strong pastoral presence to those in need, while at the same time to “afflict the comfortable,” challenge those who are complacent in their lives to awaken to their broader responsibilities...
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How A White Rabbi and An African-American Pastor Read Joseph’s Story Completely Differently
A D’var Torah for Parshat Miketz by Rabbi Ruven Barkan This summer, as we lived through the social upheaval fueled by COVID-19 and sparked by police brutality, I began to recognize more clearly the passive yet growing isolation and alienation between Jewish and African-American communities. (Recognizing, of course, that these are not mutually exclusive categories...
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Tirdof Clergy Pre-Reception (Clergy and Rabbinical and Cantorial Students Only)
Gather with Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice on February 6 for an hour of noshing, singing, and conversation ahead of a community-wide City Budget Justice Teach-In at B'nai Jeshurun.
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