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Yom Kippur: Atoning for Our Patterns

While we don’t make the same mistakes each year, the mistakes we make come from similar places. Repentance is a way of approaching the struggles at the core of our being, rather than just feeling guilt for discrete acts of harm.

Responsibility, Guilt, Teshuva

Sources and guiding questions to help inspire and support Jewish clergy as they bring the ethical teachings of our tradition to their communities this High Holiday season.

Ladino socialist publication La Bos del Pueblo. Credit: New York Public Library.

A MULTI-ROOTED MOVEMENT: Sephardic Activists and Horizontal Alliances in the Early 20th Century

New scholarly work on how Jews of past generations advanced groundbreaking multiracial coalition work, and what the tensions they faced — including racism within the Jewish community — say about conditions today.

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ROUNDTABLE: How Can U.S. Jewish Communities Play an Effective Role in Coalition Work to Advance Multiracial Democracy?

by Ginna Green, Abby Lublin, Megan Black, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD, Matthew David Hom, and Graie Hagans
A panel of pathbreaking organizers, including Ginna Green, Graie Hagans, Abby Lublin, Megan Black, Matthew David Hom, and Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD, on how Jews can advance multiracial pro-democracy coalitions today.
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Nitzavim: Interrogating the Society We Build

by Rabbi Suzanne Singer
We must continuously strive to implement justice, as it is so easy to backslide when our attention and our resolve falter. Even during a time of war, when we are at our most vulnerable, we must still check ourselves to see if our conduct is as moral as possible.
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Rabbi Philip Gibbs

Miketz: The Dangers of Finding Political Meaning in Suffering

by Rabbi Philip Gibbs
As we continue to watch the unfolding events in the war in Gaza, we need to distinguish between suffering and accountability.
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Rabbi Guy Austrian

Ha’Azinu: Learning From Our Ancestors with Humility and Chutzpah

by Rabbi Guy Austrian
We find that we have to learn from our ancestors with a dual dose of humility and chutzpah: both to learn from their wisdom, and also to transcend their limitations.
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Shabbat Hazon: Massachusetts Reimagining Communities Sermon & Study Toolkit

by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, with resources from Rabbi Becky Silverstein, Rabbi Jim Morgan, and Rabbi Shahar Colt
T'ruah invites Massachusetts clergy to use this toolkit as a way to connect the decarceration of women and girls in the Commonwealth with Shabbat Hazon.
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Tisha B’Av: Making Reparations after Churban

by Rabbi Lynn Gottleib
It is not enough to mourn. Mourning must be accompanied by actions that end the harm being done. 
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Korach: Holding onto Hope for Korach

by Rabbi Daniel K. Alter
When we escalate from anger to contempt, to what 19th century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer described as “the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another,” we move our gaze from a person’s actions to their individuality, their personhood.
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Walking Free: Democracy and Incarceration

by Rabbi David Dunn Bauer
Of all the places I have served in a rabbinic capacity, the maximum-security prison where I serve now is the most religious.
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Rabbi Avi Killip

Universal and Particular Joy

by Rabbi Avi Killip
Sukkot, as a moment of joy with God, is an essential last step of the process of divine judgment and forgiveness.
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Rabbi Benjamin Zober

Well-Practiced at Punishment

by Rabbi Benjamin Zober
...In our seats, we forgive ourselves for these sins, the ones we committed and those we did not. But outside of the synagogue, we continue to hold others, who actually seek teshuvah for many of those same sins, forever in chains.
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