Shavuot 2023: A Sampling of (M)oral Torah

These 7 divrei Torah, one for each of the 7 weeks of the Omer that lead up to Shavuot, span the breadth of the entire Torah, from Genesis to Deuteronomy, and come from 7 exceptional T'ruah rabbis who lend their voices to the call for a more just and moral world.
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Connecting Parshat Tazria-Metzora to the Moment in Israel

A resource for clergy speaking about Israel at 75.
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The backs of an audience watching a T'ruah presentation.

Israel at 75 Resources for Clergy: Shabbat of April 21-22, 2023

As Jewish clergy we have an obligation to raise our moral voices against injustice being perpetrated at home and abroad.
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Come and Learn: A Modern Immigration Midrash

by T'ruah
Read at your seder table where your haggadah instructs you to read the midrash on “My Father Was A Wandering Aramean” during Magid.
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Kernels of Inspiration for the Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe) 2022

by Rabbi Mona Alfi, Rabbi James M. Bennett, Rabbi Barry Block, Rabbi Lauren Henderson, Rabbi Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg
Five chaverim share thoughts on a social-justice-themed sermon they might give in the upcoming High Holiday season. We hope that their insights will move your intellectual gears as you prepare to deliver sacred messages to your community.  Each chaver will share a topic, the text they are basing their sermon around, and the takeaway they...
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Haggadah Supplements

Get one-page source sheets to help stimulate discussion at your seder table, designed to reengage in the work of liberating our world just as the Israelites were liberated from Egypt.
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From Crisis to Community: Reading Martin Buber in the time of Social Distancing

by Rabbi Bill Plevan
More than a century ago, Martin Buber worried about a crisis in modern life: how would increased alienation and “social distance” of modern societies affect the well-being of humanity? Both in his writings on the notion of dialogue and his writings on Judaism, Buber speaks about the spiritual dimension of human relationships as the basis...
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“Pour Out Your Wrath” Haggadah Supplement

by Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson and Bennett Decker
Download our 2022 Haggadah Supplement here!
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Reflecting pool at the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan.

Reflections from Three Generations of T’ruah Leaders on the 20th Anniversary of the September 11 Attacks

by Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson
T’ruah’s growth over the last 20 years is intertwined with the events of September 11, 2001. We asked three writers who represent three “generations” of T’ruah leadership — Rabbi Gerry Serotta (founding), Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster (maturation), and rabbinical student Becky Jaye (future) — to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the attacks. As 9/11 recedes...
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Democracy and Elections

by Compiled by T'ruah
Text studies, divrei Torah, placards, and more resources for elections.
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