Resources
VaEt’chanan: Al HaMar VeHamatok: For These Things I Weep
Devarim: Moses’ Opening Rebuke: Choose Your Leaders Wisely
Together Toward Redemption: Matot-Masei and the Nine Days
Resources for Responding to Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Prayers, text studies, divrei Torah, and general advice to the Jewish community, particularly American Jews, about how to help end the occupation.
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Invite the Erev Rav/Mixed Multitude to join the seder this year
This year I want to be a wise child who asks: “Can I be brave enough to go out and see who is suffering for my freedom?"
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Come and Learn: A Modern Immigration Midrash
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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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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Elevating Our Hearts and Spirits Towards Justice
The Mishkan was not just a compound our ancestors built; it is a state of mind that we can inhabit.
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When Blood Boils: Learning to Channel Anger in Productive Ways
Anger is like fire that, when used productively, can power engines of change but when mishandled can consume anything in its path, including us.
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Reading the Exodus as a Migration Story
If America is to be the land of the free, a melting pot of diversity and equality, it too must clear the stones from the proverbial roads and build up pathways for immigrants, especially refugees and asylum-seekers.
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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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Our Mishkan — Who Is In and Who is Barred Entry?
Our basic freedoms are under attack. The authoritarian extremists pushing these laws are saying that only they qualify to be in the Mishkan.
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