D'var Torah

To stand for human dignity means not only insisting on the right to basic survival needs, but the right to live fully — to experience joy, pleasure, love, friendship, beauty.

The Mishkan was not just a compound our ancestors built; it is a state of mind that we can inhabit.

Anger is like fire that, when used productively, can power engines of change but when mishandled can consume anything in its path, including us.

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.

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.

Our basic freedoms are under attack. The authoritarian extremists pushing these laws are saying that only they qualify to be in the Mishkan.

...we can no longer afford to be strangers within the healthcare system.

The al-Walaja olive tree is one of the oldest trees in the world... Today, as it bears fruit for this generation of residents, it also bears witness to the State of Israel demolishing the homes of some of those residents.

Things can only change if we have the faith to believe in possibilities that we currently cannot imagine.

Firstborns can be supplanted in many different ways, not all of them virtuous.