Resources
Ki Tetze: Safety and Dignity for All Workers
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.
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Remembering the Workers in the Field
CIW’s Fair Food Program beautifully illustrates Deuteronomy’s call of zachor, to remember to push back against those who oppress the rights of others.
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A MULTI-ROOTED MOVEMENT: Sephardic Activists and Horizontal Alliances in the Early 20th Century
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.
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Pesach: A Labor-Intensive Passover
Labor is an intersectional value. Our identity as workers must be as indispensable to us as that of once having been slaves in Egypt.
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CONFRONTING THE MORAL CROSSROADS: Chile’s Jews from Dictatorship to Democracy
Author and journalist Maxine Lowy guides us through the story of how Chilean Jews and non-Jews endured when democracy was shattered, and how, over 17 years, Chileans fought successfully to restore it.
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ROUNDTABLE: How Can U.S. Jewish Communities Play an Effective Role in Coalition Work to Advance Multiracial Democracy?
A panel of pathbreaking organizers, including Ginna Green, Graie Hagans, Abby Lublin, Megan Black, Matthew David Hom, and Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD, on how Jews can advance multiracial pro-democracy coalitions today.
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Kedoshim: Love Thy Neighbor, Not Thy Empire
How we love our neighbor is by fighting for a society in which we would be glad to live no matter how little privilege we had.
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Vayikra: Mincha and Roses
To stand for human dignity means not only insisting on the right to basic survival needs, but the right to live fully — to experience joy, pleasure, love, friendship, beauty.
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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.
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Going Beyond Rectifying Poverty
These passages (from this week's parshah) go beyond the basic responsibility of physically helping the poor; they challenge us to take into account their dignity and personhood.
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