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Matot-Masei: Community Just Might Be the Only Thing That Saves Us
When you understand yourself to be part of a community, you’ll show up, you’ll fight for your neighbor, and you won’t let concerns for your own welfare be at odds with doing so.
Download Changing the Conversation: A Resource for Israel and Palestine Education
An entry point for Jewish communities to engage with Israel and Palestine with depth, nuance, and care.
WATCH: Understanding Antisemitism: A Training for All
Watch T'ruah's antisemitism training, led by our Director of Learning, Rabbi Jonah Winer.
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.
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Sh’lach-Lecha: Encountering the Other, Encountering
Even if you are feeling a lack of empathy for an “other,” God does not make that distinction. God wants to be in relationship with both of you. May this profound teaching inspire us to resist the dehumanization of any group of human beings.
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Beha’alotecha: Lighting a fire in Us to Rise Up
What if the Torah is saying that if ever there was a time for us to act like members of a nation of priests, that moment is NOW?!
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Shavuot: Do the Act of Love
We can start the process of being our authentic selves and accepting others as they want to be seen before we fully understand what or why that might be.
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Emor: Insiders and Outsiders
The devastating consequences of excluding “the other” reverberate through history and are particularly relevant in our current climate of nativism and xenophobia, where human beings are being exiled for their words, and the very term “inclusion” is being banished.
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Yom HaShoah: When Human Rights Become “Too Political”
I pledge to continue the call to recognize the sanctity of life for all human beings. I vow never to be silent in the face of oppression — no matter how “political” it may seem to some.
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Pesach: On Moving from a Place of Fear to a Place of Love
Passover is centrally about the possibility that in a moment, things can radically change. Yet, simultaneously, radical change cannot magically stay with us. No event lasts without an intention to integrate its lessons.
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Yom HaAtzma’ut: A Resource for Educators
This resource has been created ahead of Yom HaAtzma’ut 2025 but is designed to be adaptable for year-round use, offering educational tools, programs, and texts that support ongoing learning within your community.
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Vayakhel: Rejecting Idolatry to Find Our Faces
Repair takes intention and responsibility, while destruction requires nothing but the will to destroy and the means to do it.
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Shemot: Worthy to Be Named
The Torah deems Shifra, Puah, and Moses worthy of being named on the basis of their efforts to subvert the injustice that surrounds them. These leaders should push us to ask ourselves if we are fully inhabiting our named identities as we face today’s moral challenges.
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