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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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How To Talk About Antisemitism from the Bima: 

A messaging guide for rabbis and cantors.
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Photo of the author, Rabbi Shoshana Cohen

Ekev: Keeping Perspective When We Have Gone Too Far: Power, Vulnerability, and the Land

by Rabbi Shoshana Cohen
Power doesn't just tempt toward corruption; it reorganizes justice around itself until the bias no longer feels like bias.
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Israel Must Purge the Bloodguilt of Settler Violence

by Rabbi Jonah Winer
Rabbi Jonah Winer argues that we must move the North American Jewish community’s discourse from a focus on the crimes of individual radical settlers, to the violence of the occupation and settlement projects as a whole.
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High Holiday Sermon Resource: On Settler Violence & State Violence

by Rabbi Jonah Winer
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.
more
Photo of the author, Rabbi Paula Marcus

Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Coming Close

by Rabbi Paula Marcus
If I am to take seriously the command to love my neighbor, I have to speak out against what is happening in Israel, in particular the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Photo of the author, Rabbi Aaron Leven

Tazria-Metzora: “Something Like a Plague”: Why Our Leaders Need Humility Above All

by Rabbi Aaron Leven
We must be able to identify when something “like” a plague has affected us, but also to recognize when there are limits to our own perspective.
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“Zionism from Love and Zionism from Hate”: Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel’s Challenge for Our Times

by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Rabbi Jill Jacobs explores how Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel's words might form the basis for a new approach to Zionism and to Israel that can lead us toward a political solution.
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Photo of the author, Rabbi Abi Weber

Shabbat Zachor: Remember Your Humanity

by Rabbi Abi Weber
Should you ever be tempted to be like Amalek — blot out that very thought. Remember your humanity. Do not forget that to be a Jew is to be a light unto nations, not a threat.
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Vayeshev, Yosef’s brothers, and Gaza

by Rabbi Amelia Wolf
"More and more I begin to believe that we are as defined by those calls for help we do not answer as by those calls that we do."
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Noach: Who Is Righteous?

by Rabbi Hannah Orden
What does it mean to be righteous or blameless? In a time of rampant corruption and injustice, surely [obeying God] was not enough. Surely, the times called for more than being a good person and quietly following God’s ways.
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