Resources

The connection between Sukkot and immigration is incredibly rich.

Read at your seder table where your haggadah instructs you to read the midrash on “My Father Was A Wandering Aramean” during Magid.

I have just returned from the borderlands, where the conjoined cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez meet.

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...

Laban is happy to use Jacob as a worker and use his own children as tools to extract more value from Jacob, all while telling himself a comforting narrative that he is just doing what is right in his country.

We’re connected to each other in surprising ways, even during this time of disruption and loss.

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.

The Torah teaches us that we have a special duty, not only to avoid exploiting, but to actively care for the poorest and most vulnerable in our communities. As we celebrate Labor Day, let us do all we can to ensure that every person [especially immigrant workers] can live and work in safety and dignity.

Use your bodies — your arms, hands, legs, feet, voices, hearts — to act on your burning desire for justice.

“When I look at those poor people, I see us.” My father, Elliott Arian, passed away in November 2021, but for the last few weeks of his life, he wasn’t really able to speak. My last coherent conversation with him was some time in September 2021. He was very upset because he had been watching...