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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.

Responsibility, Guilt, Teshuva

Sources and guiding questions to help inspire and support Jewich clergy as they bring the ethical teachings of our tradition to their communities this High Holiday season.

Changing the Conversation: A Resource for Israel and Palestine Education

Want to read this resource as a pdf? Download here. What is this resource? In this moment of heartbreak, overwhelm, and moral reckoning, many of us are searching for ways to have authentic conversations about the realities on the ground in Israel and Palestine. So many in our communities are yearning to connect with people...

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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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