Resources
Vayakhel-Pekudei: Approaching Immigration with an Abundance Mindset
"I left Minneapolis inspired in many ways, most of all feeling called to approach immigration with an abundance mindset."
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Tishrei: Guide to Immigration Justice Teachings for Rabbis and Cantors
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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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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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.
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Rabbi Jill Jacobs’ prayer for Minnesota, National Prayer Call for Minnesota 1.23.26
Words of prayer from Rabbi Jill Jacobs in support of Minnesota.
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Bo: What Brings Light?
Darkness, in Bo, was not merely the absence of light, but the collapse of moral vision — the inability to see the person beside you. The Israelites, by contrast, … were able to preserve connection within their homes. Connection is also light.
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Vayetze: Remembering Jacob outside Home Depot
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.
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