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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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Embracing Our Inner Nachshon

by Rabbi Larry Sernovitz
Things can only change if we have the faith to believe in possibilities that we currently cannot imagine.
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Choosing Justice Over First-Born Status

by Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson
Firstborns can be supplanted in many different ways, not all of them virtuous.
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Reckoning with Climate Change in Egypt and Today

by Rabbi Frederick Reeves
We have enough warning signs, enough extreme climate names. Let us not be Pharaohs on the way to deaths in every household.
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Getting to Know You

by Rabbi Brian Immerman
True relationships, born out of love and respect, take time to develop. These relationships require intimacy and occasionally discomfort in order to truly know each other.
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Be Like Brothers In Every Place

by Rabbi Scott Shafrin
Just as Ephraim and Menashe became the gold standard of siblings in the eyes of Jewish tradition, so too are we called to extend a loving hand to all the people we come across, no matter who they are, how they may differ from us, or what else may be going on in our own lives.
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A Just, Humane Immigration System Starts With Vision

by Rabbi Susan Goldberg
I have just returned from the borderlands, where the conjoined cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez meet.
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The Power of Dreams and Our Power to Create Prophecy

by Rabbi Becky Jaye
...if, like this Pharaoh, we can move beyond the terror to seeking options with an open mind, we may find ourselves with more resources at hand than we ever realized was possible.
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A Hero of Biblical Proportions?

by Cantor Sara Geffen Geller
When someone like Kenneth Smith is praying even as he is lying on a bed of death, how can we pass by once we are made aware, awakened to God's presence there?
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Meeting the Other Face to Face

by Rabbi Danielle Stillman
In the grand scheme of the occupation, individuals or small groups coming together might seem like a small thing, but Jacob and Esau’s meeting shows us just how powerful personal moments of meeting and reconciliation can be.
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Seeing God in All of Us: Even (Especially) Those on Death Row

by Rabbi Michael Bernstein
When someone like Kenneth Smith is praying even as he is lying on a bed of death, how can we pass by once we are made aware, awakened to God's presence there? 
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