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![Photo of the author, Rabbi Alanna Sklover](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Rabbi-Alanna-Skloverortrait-Sizer.jpg)
Tzav: We Are the Stranger
We know the heart of the stranger and we cannot allow ourselves to lose sight of these people, or allow statistics to blur them and their lives into a faceless “issue.”
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![Headshot of the author, Rabbi Jill Borodin](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Rabbi-Jill-Borodin.jpg)
Vayikra: A Model for Transparent Leadership
I yearn to live in a generation where everyone, including our leaders, recognizes that leaders sin; where our leaders admit their mistakes, are held accountable, and where they actively make amends.
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![Headshot of the author, Rabbi Victor Urecki](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Rabbi-Victor-Urecki.jpg)
Pekudei: Culpability on the Southern Border
I went to Juárez seeking a window into what is happening along our southern border, but I left staring at a mirror of culpability and responsibility.
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Past Purim Newsletters
Enjoy these past Purim newsletters while you're waiting for the 5784 edition!
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![Headshot of the author, Rabbi Amy Josefa Ariel](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Rabbi-Amy-Josefa-Ariel-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Vayakhel: Every Letter, Every One
Commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, we understand that if we fail to see a member of our community, it is because we are not looking for them with enough love.
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![Headshot of Rabbi Andrea Goldstein](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Andrea-Goldstein-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Ki Tisa: Democracies and Holiness Require Open Space
Only from an open and spacious heart can I experience a connection to what is holy. When I am focused on what I want and need, or when I am filled up with my own sense of righteousness, then what I have created within is actually a Golden Calf instead of my own small sanctuary.
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![Headshot of Rabbi Jay LeVine](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Jay-Levine-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Tetzaveh: Meet the Darkness with a Persistent Light
We need each other’s lights. A friend, colleague, or ally — perhaps even those we consider adversaries — have the sacred potential to ignite in us the lamp of tamid consciousness and the willingness to widen our circles and give ourselves to the tasks of care, compassion, advocacy, and love.
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![Headshot of Rabbi Allan Berkowitz](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AB-Portrait-Sizer2.jpg)
Terumah: How Much is a Human Being Worth?
Theologically speaking, to be human is to be sacred. Full stop. During human engagement, when we remain mindful of the sanctity of the other person, we bring acknowledgment of our shared holiness and further elevate the other and ourselves.
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![Rabbi Laurie Franklin](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/LF-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Mishpatim: Mishpatim in Montana
Mishpatim teaches that formal justice must be free of influence from bribes or wealth status, and that even the stranger deserves protection. In my home state of Montana, regressive laws recently passed in our 2023 state legislature have revoked rights and freedoms from Montana residents under the guise of “protection” and “freedom of speech."
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![Rabbi Adir Yolkut](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Rabbi-Adir-Yolkut.png)
Yitro: The Jewish Case for Protecting Voting Rights in 2024
As inheritors of a multi-vocal Jewish tradition that welcomes dissent and minority opinions, allowing people the chance to freely, legally, and openly participate in the democratic process strikes me as very Jewish. So to look at some of these harsh policies that stifle the voices of the downtrodden contradicts so much of what we hold dear in Judaism.
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