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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.

Photo of the author, Rabbi Jacob Chatinover

Korach: The Entire People is Holy

The entire people is holy, each of them. God is with their pain and their needs. As narrow as our focus can be when we are in acute moments of pain, in struggling with what to say and when to say it as a leader, I see that there are times to push, times to be silent, and times to support.

Criticism of Israel and Antisemitism: How to Tell Where One Ends and the Other Begins

In this time of inflamed passions, it’s crucial both to ensure that criticism of Israel does not cross the line into antisemitism, and to protect the free speech of those protesting Israel’s actions.

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Invite the Erev Rav/Mixed Multitude to join the seder this year 

by Rabbi Rim Meirowitz
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

by T'ruah
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

by Rabbi Lindsey Healey-Pollack
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

by T'ruah
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

by Rabbi Jonathan Biatch
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

by Rabbi Ariana Capptauber
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

by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, Rabbi Victor Reinstein, Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein, and Rabbi Jessica Dell’Era
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

by Rabbi Laura Abrasley
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?

by Rabbi Doug Alpert
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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Strangers in our Healthcare System

by Rabbi Natalie Louise Shribman
...we can no longer afford to be strangers within the healthcare system.
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