Resources

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.

Rabbi Doug Alpert on the promise of the jubilee year.

All of Torah is within us... The options that we can individually access may be different than our neighbor’s, but no less vital to the project of bringing justice and healing to this world.

If I am to take seriously the command to love my neighbor, I have to speak out against what is happening in Israel, in particular the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank.

When leadership acts for their own interests, instead of thinking of all of the people they were elected to serve, everyone is put in danger.

"I left Minneapolis inspired in many ways, most of all feeling called to approach immigration with an abundance mindset."

As a Correctional Chaplain, I work with kindred spirits, among staff and Inmates, who are striving to live meaningful lives, confronting negativity within and without, and transforming themselves and their society.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs explores how Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel's words might form the basis for a new approach to Zionism and to Israel that can lead us toward a political solution.

In a time when manna no longer falls from the sky, its ethic becomes our responsibility. By rejecting the culture of excess, using Shabbat as a tool of resistance, and fostering communities of care, we can work toward building the society that our parshah invites us to imagine.