Resources
Noach: Who Is Righteous?
What does it mean to be righteous or blameless? In a time of rampant corruption and injustice, surely [obeying God] was not enough. Surely, the times called for more than being a good person and quietly following God’s ways.
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Bereshit: The Boundless Breadth of Dreams
No creation is possible without first stepping back and creating room for the infinite breadth of everything it could be.
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Sukkot: Building Housing in God’s Backyard
Where and how we live so deeply defines our relationship not only to ourselves, but to others and even to God. Stable, safe housing affords us the opportunity for refuge, growth, and connection.
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Yom Kippur: Atoning for Our Patterns
While we don’t make the same mistakes each year, the mistakes we make come from similar places. Repentance is a way of approaching the struggles at the core of our being, rather than just feeling guilt for discrete acts of harm.
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Rosh Hashanah: Tears on the Altar
God hears the cries and responds to the tears of Jews and non-Jews alike. God even responds to the tears of characters elsewhere disparaged as evil.
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VOTING AND DEMOCRACY: One Possible Halakhic Approach
Rabbi david Polsky reflects on what Jewish tradition has to say about voting and democratic practice.
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A MULTI-ROOTED MOVEMENT: Sephardic Activists and Horizontal Alliances in the Early 20th Century
New scholarly work on how Jews of past generations advanced groundbreaking multiracial coalition work, and what the tensions they faced — including racism within the Jewish community — say about conditions today.
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Ki Tavo: Fear Is the Barrier to Peace
We are strangers to others, and others are strangers to us.
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Why T’ruah Opposes Codifying the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
T'ruah is committed to fighting antisemitism and to ensuring the safety, wellbeing, and vibrancy of the Jewish people. It is because of this commitment that we oppose any effort to codify definitions of antisemitism into policy or law, including the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s definition of antisemitism.
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