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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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Prayer for North American Jews on the 75th Anniversary of Israel’s Founding

by Rabbi Ayelet Cohen
A prayer by Rabbi Ayelet Cohen for the State of Israel.
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Understanding Antisemitism Definitions

by T'ruah Staff
The following definitions and links to more information are provided to give more context on how T'ruah and others understand antisemitism.
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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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Connecting Parshat Tazria-Metzora to the Moment in Israel

A resource for clergy speaking about Israel at 75.
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Israel at 75 Resources for Clergy: Shabbat of April 21-22, 2023

As Jewish clergy we have an obligation to raise our moral voices against injustice being perpetrated at home and abroad.
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Pride Month: Resisting Anti-Trans Pharaohs

by Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann
In a time when modern day Pharaohs are seeking to peddle fear, to oppress, and to erase transgender people, we can take our direction from our brave matriarchs.
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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 

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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