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High Holiday Sermon Resource: On Settler Violence & State Violence

Use these clergy resources to help your community make a narrative shift: expanding beyond rightful condemnation of settler violence to seeing and working against the violence of the occupation and settlement projects as a whole.

Responsibility, Guilt, Teshuva

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.

Antisemitism & Immigration: A Messaging Guide for Jewish Clergy

When the fight against antisemitism is used to harm immigrants, rabbis and cantors can be powerful voices to describe what’s at play and advocate for and inspire action towards our shared safety.

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Antisemitism & Immigration: A Messaging Guide for Jewish Clergy

by Bend the Arc & T'ruah
When the fight against antisemitism is used to harm immigrants, rabbis and cantors can be powerful voices to describe what’s at play and advocate for and inspire action towards our shared safety.
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Vayakhel-Pekudei: Approaching Immigration with an Abundance Mindset

by Claire Davidson Bruder
"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

by T'ruah
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

by Rabbi Susan Goldberg
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

by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld and Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson
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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Shoftim: Justice in an Era of Injustice

by Rabbi Mol Paul
Power corrupts even exceptionally just people, especially those responsible for holding even more powerful people and systems accountable. God and Moses… are not interested in building a society that is reliant on a select few righteous people; they are concerned with creating an infrastructure immune to human fallibility.
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How To Talk About Antisemitism from the Bima: 

A messaging guide for rabbis and cantors.
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America at 250: Democracy Resources

As we mark 250 years of the United States, T'ruah offers these Jewish resources on democracy to inspire, challenge, and expand your thinking.
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Shavuot: Cleave to Your Neighbor

by Rabbi Adam Graubart
There are ways for us to practice solidarity right now. We can listen, bear witness, and refuse to normalize cruelty.
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