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God’s Children: A Haggadah Supplement for Immigrant Justice

Through this new haggadah supplement from T’ruah, bring the fight for immigration justice into your seder.  

The Other Side of the River, the Other Side of the Sea

T'ruah's haggadah helps transform the seder into a conversation about immigration, racism, workers' rights, and forced labor.

Yom HaAtzma’ut: A Resource for Educators

This resource is designed to be adaptable for year-round use, offering educational tools, programs, and texts that support ongoing learning within your community.

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Civil Disobedience, Jews, and the Authoritarian State

by Rabbi Jonah Winer
The following is the first in T’ruah’s new thought leadership series, “Tekiyah Gedolah.” In a time of mounting authoritarianism in the United States, we must use the wisdom of our tradition to help us think through how to fight for democracy as diaspora Jews. How does our tradition guide us to respond to our present...
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Zionism out of Love

by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Rabbi Jill Jacobs explores how Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel's words might form the basis for a new approach to Zionism and to Israel that can lead us toward a political solution.
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A JEWISH EMBRACE OF DEMOCRACY: Early Reconstructionist Judaism and America’s Promise

by Rabbi Deborah Waxman, PhD
Rabbi Deborah Waxman reflects on what Jewish tradition has to say about democratic practice.
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Photo of the author, Rabbi Jonah Winer

Bereshit: The Boundless Breadth of Dreams

by Rabbi Jonah Winer
No creation is possible without first stepping back and creating room for the infinite breadth of everything it could be.
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Responsibility, Guilt, Teshuva

by Rabbi Jonah Winer, T'ruah
Sources and guiding questions to help inspire and support Jewish clergy as they bring the ethical teachings of our tradition to their communities this High Holiday season.
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Photo of the author, Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm

Matot-Masei: Community Just Might Be the Only Thing That Saves Us

When you understand yourself to be part of a community, you’ll show up, you’ll fight for your neighbor, and you won’t let concerns for your own welfare be at odds with doing so.
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A DIZZYING INVERSION AND AN URGENT PAUSE: Reading Trachtenberg in the 21st Century

by Ben Lorber
The second half of a debate across time between author Ben Lorber and Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg about American Jews’ strategies to resist antisemitism.
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Excerpt from “STOP FASCISM: Preserve Democracy” (1937)

by Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg, PhD, with introduction by Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD
The first half of a debate across time between author Ben Lorber and Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg about American Jews’ strategies to resist antisemitism.
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Photo of the author, Rabbi Jonah Winer

Acharei Mot – Kedoshim: What Does It Mean to Be Holy? 

by Rabbi Jonah Winer
Holiness is not about attaining some kind of moral and spiritual perfection, but rather cultivating the ability to see and respond to the opportunities to live up to our highest ideals, to build that quality of readiness to meet each moment as it comes.
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Pekudei: Learning From, Not Erasing, Our Broken Tablets

by Rabbi Elyse Wechterman
The administration is tearing apart the historical narrative of the United States, denying the verifiable truth that more people have been left out of the American dream than included in it, that brutality had a role in building this country, and that we have inherited both the gloriousness of the nation’s founding ideas and the shame of our failure to live up to them.
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