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Vayetze: Remembering Jacob outside Home Depot

Laban is happy to use Jacob as a worker and use his own children as tools to extract more value from Jacob, all while telling himself a comforting narrative that he is just doing what is right in his country.

Antisemitism Resources

T'ruah's collected resources on antisemitism.

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GRANDMA SAYS NO!

In a moment of such high stakes, we take heart and courage from Jonah Canner’s ode to his vibrant radical grandmother.

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Tishrei: Guide to Immigration Justice Teachings for Rabbis and Cantors

The connection between Sukkot and immigration is incredibly rich.
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Rabbi Lizz Goldstein

Shoftim: “Thus Blood of the Innocent Will not be Shed” The Necessity of Sanctuary

by Rabbi Lizz Goldstein
A self-proclaimed “melting pot,” a country that declared its independence by asserting that all men are created equal, should continue to be a sanctuary and refuge.
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VaEt’chanan: Torah as a Life-Giving Force

by Rabbi Danny Stein
No matter the circumstances, each imprisoned and formerly imprisoned person deserves a life filled with dignity.
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Behar-Bechukotai: Proclaiming Dror Throughout the Land

by Rabbi Michael Rothbaum
...modern American politics have alienated the word dror from the Jewish concept of liberty.
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Come and Learn: A Modern Immigration Midrash

by T'ruah
Read at your seder table where your haggadah instructs you to read the midrash on “My Father Was A Wandering Aramean” during Magid.
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The Other Side of the River, the Other Side of the Sea

by T'ruah
T'ruah's haggadah helps transform the seder into a conversation about immigration, racism, workers' rights, and forced labor.
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Elevating Our Hearts and Spirits Towards Justice

by Rabbi Jonathan Biatch
The Mishkan was not just a compound our ancestors built; it is a state of mind that we can inhabit.
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Reading the Exodus as a Migration Story

by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, Rabbi Victor Reinstein, Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein, and Rabbi Jessica Dell’Era
If America is to be the land of the free, a melting pot of diversity and equality, it too must clear the stones from the proverbial roads and build up pathways for immigrants, especially refugees and asylum-seekers.
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A Just, Humane Immigration System Starts With Vision

by Rabbi Susan Goldberg
I have just returned from the borderlands, where the conjoined cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez meet.
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Rabbi Megan GoldMarche

Closing the Doors of Our Ark to Immigrants

by Rabbi Megan GoldMarche
I can imagine a situation where Noah’s gut instinct was to just follow God, but I cannot fathom how he just sat there as the rain started to fall and didn’t do anything to try to save anyone. 
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