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Naso: Patriarchal Surveillance, Bodily Autonomy, and Longing for “a Regulated World”

This “regulated world” is only idyllic if you are the monitor and punisher of “deviation,” not the monitored and punished. For [the monitored and punished,] the longing instead is for a world that affirms the dignity of all people.

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.

Capitol Building at sunset

“May We Create a Nation”: A New Prayer for Our Country

From Rabbi Seth Goldstein: We know that this is a nation founded by massacre, built by slavery, maintained by exclusion, defined by inequality. And we also know that this nation promises equality, exercises resilience, evolves continuously, practices teshuvah.

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Vayikra: Learning We Were Wrong

by Rabbi Noah Arnow
May we hear and take seriously others’ observations of us that we have erred, and may we admit our errors, when we realize them. May our leaders take seriously their obligation to examine their own actions, and to admit and take responsibility for their unwitting mistakes.
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A person wearing a kippah that says end the war.

A Prayer for Gaza and to Preserve Our Humanity

by Rabbi Felicia Sol and Rabbi Roly Matalon
By Rabbis Felicia Sol and Roly Matalon of B’nai Jeshurun in New York City.
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Pekudei: Learning From, Not Erasing, Our Broken Tablets

by Rabbi Elyse Wechterman
The administration is tearing apart the historical narrative of the United States, denying the verifiable truth that more people have been left out of the American dream than included in it, that brutality had a role in building this country, and that we have inherited both the gloriousness of the nation’s founding ideas and the shame of our failure to live up to them.
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Vayakhel: Rejecting Idolatry to Find Our Faces

by Rabbi Michael Bernstein
Repair takes intention and responsibility, while destruction requires nothing but the will to destroy and the means to do it.
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Purim: The Absurdity of Purim Today

by Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein
The Esther model seeks Jewish safety not by defying the status quo, the power structure, but by sucking up to it. It is safety without freedom. True liberation comes against totalitarian power, not by cozying up to it.
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“Project Esther”: Exploiting Jewish Fear to Advance Dangerous Policy

by The Nexus Project and T'ruah
Created in collaboration with The Nexus Project. Learn what Project Esther is, why it’s dangerous, how it’s showing up in policy right now, and what Jewish leaders can do about it.
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Tetzaveh: A Letter to My Younger Trans Self: The Liberatory Power of Dress

We are living in a terrifying moment to be trans in America. When those in power try to take away your rights, being your authentic self is the most revelatory thing you can do. It is revolutionary and holy work.
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Capitol Building at sunset

“May We Create a Nation”: A New Prayer for Our Country

by Rabbi Seth Goldstein
From Rabbi Seth Goldstein: We know that this is a nation founded by massacre, built by slavery, maintained by exclusion, defined by inequality. And we also know that this nation promises equality, exercises resilience, evolves continuously, practices teshuvah.
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Rosh Chodesh Adar: Turning Grief to Joy as Resistance

by Rabbi Tova Leibovic-Douglas
Adar is a month that invites us into an ancient, collective experience. It calls us to cultivate joy, even when we do not feel it naturally. Our ancestors knew there would be Adars when joy was hard to find, yet they committed themselves to honor the spirit of the month, to dare to seek joy even in the hardest times.
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Mishpatim: Our Ethics and Our Enemies

by Rabbi Gerald Serotta
By performing this mitzvah [of helping your enemy], we create an experience of cognitive dissonance, causing our enemy to question the assumptions of conflict between us.
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