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Ki Tetze: Safety and Dignity for All Workers

The Torah teaches us that we have a special duty, not only to avoid exploiting, but to actively care for the poorest and most vulnerable in our communities. As we celebrate Labor Day, let us do all we can to ensure that every person [especially immigrant workers] can live and work in safety and dignity.

Responsibility, Guilt, Teshuva

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

Changing the Conversation: A Resource for Israel and Palestine Education

Want to read this resource as a pdf? Download here. What is this resource? In this moment of heartbreak, overwhelm, and moral reckoning, many of us are searching for ways to have authentic conversations about the realities on the ground in Israel and Palestine. So many in our communities are yearning to connect with people...

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Hunger for Change

by Rabbi Benjamin Altshuler
Down the line, we may trace the origin of the hunger for power contested between the tribes of Israel.
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Only Love Can Bring Teshuvah

by Rabbi Alon C Ferency
By listening to human narrative, and even re-visiting what’s challenging, chesed recognizes k’vod habriot in each soul and makes an opening for teshuvah.
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The Wisdom of Welcome

by Rabbi Steve Greenberg
Welcome, it appears, does not end at the door. It is a commitment to walk with vulnerable guests as they emerge from the protection of our homes and enter the public square.
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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 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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Rabbi Allan Berkowitz

Being God’s Partner Is A Big To Do

by Rabbi Allan Berkowitz
Wherever there is imperfection in our world — people suffering, an ecosystem in distress, systemic injustice — there are unfinished spaces that call on us in our role as God’s partners. 
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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 Lauren Tuchman

Creating Sacred Communities for the Whole of Israel

by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
As the world has moved on, and as precautions have dropped, high-risk disabled folks are increasingly feeling an existential isolation, not just a physical one.
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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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Dr. David Arnow

Facing Our Trials with Hope: Abraham and the Akedah

by Dr. David Arnow
A D’var Torah for Rosh Hashanah by David Arnow, Ph.D. From climate change and the erosion of democratic norms to the resurgence of antisemitism and the fight for human rights, one thing is clear: If despair triumphs over hope, we’ll never overcome the challenges we face. Hope enables us to envision a better future and...
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