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Pinchas: Kein B’not Zelophehad: Diplomacy Vs. Vigilantism

As we deal with a scourge of baseless hatred in our world today, what would it look like to use curiosity as one of the tools in our spiritual toolbox?

WATCH: Understanding Antisemitism: A Training for All

Watch T'ruah's antisemitism training, led by our Director of Learning, Rabbi Jonah Winer.

WATCH: When Israel Breaks Your Heart

A briefing with Breaking the Silence about the current reality in Israel, the plan for Gaza, and the mass devastation in Gaza from a lens of understanding of the military and the work needed to build a just future.

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Yom HaShoah: When Human Rights Become “Too Political”

by Cantor Michael Zoosman
I pledge to continue the call to recognize the sanctity of life for all human beings. I vow never to be silent in the face of oppression — no matter how “political” it may seem to some.
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Yom HaShoah: Human Rights Require Human Enforcement

by Rabbi Sarah Bassin
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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Tazria-Metzora: Tweet Others as You Would Want to be Tweeted

by Dvir Cahana
When the boogeyman of the mob is demystified, we have the humanity to look even our enemy in the face as a real, breathing human soul. 
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Embodying “Never Again”: Learning the Lessons of Pesach in time for Yom HaShoah

by Serena Oberstein
The horror stories we’re hearing about Uyghur people taken in the night, being separated from their families, having their heads shaved, put on trains, interned, forced into slave labor, and systematically murdered are all too familiar to the Jewish community.
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Lessons for Democracy from the Holocaust

by Julian Zelizer
A d’var Torah for Yom HaShoah. In many respects, World War II seemed like a triumph of democracy. When the Allies defeated the Axis powers, the world celebrated that democratic nations had been victorious against fascism. On May 8, 1945, Victory Day, Americans danced in the streets and threw confetti from the rooftops to celebrate...
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