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Israel Must Purge the Bloodguilt of Settler Violence

Rabbi Jonah Winer argues that we must move the North American Jewish community’s discourse from a focus on the crimes of individual radical settlers, to the violence of the occupation and settlement projects as a whole.

High Holiday Sermon Resource: On Settler Violence & State Violence

Use these clergy resources to help your community make a narrative shift: expanding beyond rightful condemnation of settler violence to seeing and working against the violence of the occupation and settlement projects as a whole.

Antisemitism & Immigration: A Messaging Guide for Jewish Clergy

When the fight against antisemitism is used to harm immigrants, rabbis and cantors can be powerful voices to describe what’s at play and advocate for and inspire action towards our shared safety.

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Behar-Bechukotai: Taking Back Our Streets and the Meaning of Jubilee

by Rabbi Doug Alpert
Rabbi Doug Alpert on the promise of the jubilee year.
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Emor: All Torah Is Within Us

by Rabbi Michaela Brown
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.
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Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Coming Close

by Rabbi Paula Marcus
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.
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Shmini: Our Leaders Should Not Be Above the Law

by Rabbi Jeanne Snodgrass
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.
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Vayakhel-Pekudei: Approaching Immigration with an Abundance Mindset

by Claire Davidson Bruder
"I left Minneapolis inspired in many ways, most of all feeling called to approach immigration with an abundance mindset."
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Ki Tisa: Finding Your People

by Rabbi Ruven Barkan
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.
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“Zionism from Love and Zionism from Hate”: Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel’s Challenge for Our Times

by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
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.
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Beshalach: Scarcity and Sustenance — What Is Enough?

by Rabbi Madeleine Fortney
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.
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Bo: What Brings Light?

by Rabbi Rafi Ellenson
Darkness, in Bo, was not merely the absence of light, but the collapse of moral vision — the inability to see the person beside you. The Israelites, by contrast, … were able to preserve connection within their homes. Connection is also light.
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VaEra: And God Spoke

by Rabbi Moshe Heyn
…I am a refugee. I am an immigrant. I am a person of color. I am a transgender person… [These] words become more than just words when we know that it was YHVH who spoke them.
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