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Immigration Justice Teachings for Sukkot
The connection between Sukkot and immigration is incredibly rich.
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Come and Learn: A Modern Immigration Midrash
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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A Just, Humane Immigration System Starts With Vision
I have just returned from the borderlands, where the conjoined cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez meet.
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Ruth: An Immigration Story
This text sheet uses excerpts from the Book of Ruth to begin a conversation about U.S. immigration policy. It is designed to segue into “The Sin of Sodom,” a text study that appears in the revised and expanded Mikdash handbook (p. 30-31). The second page of this resource contains a prayer for immigrant children and...
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Yom HaShoah: Human Rights Require Human Enforcement
We are born in the image of God, but we must accept that this God-given status exists only within the framework of human enforcement.
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Tzav: We Are the Stranger
We know the heart of the stranger and we cannot allow ourselves to lose sight of these people, or allow statistics to blur them and their lives into a faceless “issue.”
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Pekudei: Culpability on the Southern Border
I went to Juárez seeking a window into what is happening along our southern border, but I left staring at a mirror of culpability and responsibility.
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Tetzaveh: Meet the Darkness with a Persistent Light
We need each other’s lights. A friend, colleague, or ally — perhaps even those we consider adversaries — have the sacred potential to ignite in us the lamp of tamid consciousness and the willingness to widen our circles and give ourselves to the tasks of care, compassion, advocacy, and love.
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Shoftim: “Thus Blood of the Innocent Will not be Shed” The Necessity of Sanctuary
A self-proclaimed “melting pot,” a country that declared its independence by asserting that all men are created equal, should continue to be a sanctuary and refuge.
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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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