Resources

No matter the circumstances, each imprisoned and formerly imprisoned person deserves a life filled with dignity.

Use these clergy resources to help your community make a narrative shift: expanding beyond rightful condemnation of settler violence to seeing and working against the violence of the occupation and settlement projects as a whole.

In this week's commentary on Devarim, Rabbi Francine Roston reflects on the need to understand and process trauma before moving forward.

Clearly, if the laws which govern our lives are promulgated by and in the interests of the privileged in the majority, then those who are insufficiently represented will be harmed.

Each of us contains a Divine spark of holiness, but if our thoughts and actions aren’t directed toward holiness and channeled toward a redemptive vision, toward something larger than ourselves, then our sparks don’t connect and align.

We are responsible for one another. A society cannot call itself just while the sick are impoverished. It cannot call itself prosperous while the vulnerable are denied basic health care.

There is nothing more energizing and hopeful than walking with hundreds of others in a Pride parade and seeing the myriads of flags held high, a brilliantly hued tribute to the resilience and courage of those who continue to fight for their right to exist.

There are ways for us to practice solidarity right now. We can listen, bear witness, and refuse to normalize cruelty.

As we celebrate receiving the Torah amidst the brokenness of a world struggling with rising authoritarianism and rife with human rights abuses, each of us committed to the work of repairing that world is called to think through how these pieces of our lives fit together.

Now is the time we need to reach into the abundant depths of justice… We can not tend to everything at once, but we can each do something.