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Passover Resources for 2025

A collection of T'ruah's resources for Pesach/Passover 2025.

“Project Esther”: Exploiting Jewish Fear to Advance Dangerous Policy

Created in collaboration with The Nexus Project. Learn what Project Esther is, why it’s dangerous, how it’s showing up in policy right now, and what Jewish leaders can do about it. Plus: Texts related to the biblical Esther to explore with your communities and inspire your resistance. The perfect tool for pre-Purim text study or learning throughout the month of Adar.

A person wearing a kippah that says end the war.

A Prayer for Gaza and to Preserve Our Humanity

By Rabbis Felicia Sol and Roly Matalon of B’nai Jeshurun in New York City.

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“Act Like You’ve Been There”

by Rabbi Joshua Strom
Rabbi Joshua Strom advises us to "act like we've been there" when we read VaEt'chanan.
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A Trauma-Informed Reading of Parshat Devarim: Advice to Activists on Building Resiliency

by Rabbi Francine Roston
In this week's commentary on Devarim, Rabbi Francine Roston reflects on the need to understand and process trauma before moving forward.
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Human Rights In Progress (Slowly)

by Rabbi J. Fred Schwalb
Rabbi J. Fred Schwalb traces the history of women's rights in the Torah and offers a prayer for the continued evolution of our ideas.
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Prayer for the Protection of Immigrants and Refugees

by Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub
Written by Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, recipient of the 2019 T’ruah Founders’ Award, this prayer asks for the safety of immigrants and refugees, as well as their families and communities.   Find more resources for your Tisha B’Av #CloseTheCamps vigil here.
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The Sound of Longing

by Rabbi Maya Glasser
Rabbi Maya Glasser points to the importance of recognition, whether with Zelophehad's daughters in Parshat Pinchas, or those in solitary confinement in our own day.
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Prayer for Tisha B’Av Actions: Jews Say #CloseTheCamps

by Rabbi Mónica Gomery
Our tradition teaches us that our individual laments form a collective lament, gathering the disparate parts of ourselves into a unified sorrow. It comes from the bones, from breath. The city weeps, and we weep with her, her wails are our breath, her voice in our mouths.
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Opening Our Eyes

by Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein
Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein analyzes Balaam's blindness and points to our own blind spots in this drash on Parshat Balak.
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How We Deal With Our Anger

by Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz
For Parshat Chukat, Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz offers us a more useful way to channel our anger.
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Argue for the Sake of Holiness

by Rabbi Sharyn Henry
Rabbi Sharyn Henry reflects on what it means to argue for the sake of heaven in Parshat Korach.
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Torah from T’ruah for Tisha B’Av

by Rabbis Edward C. Bernstein, Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein, Lizz Goldstein, Lev Meirowitz Nelson and Denise Handlarski.
Divrei Torah for Tisha B'Av by Rabbis Edward C. Bernstein, Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein, Lizz Goldstein, Lev Meirowitz Nelson and Denise Handlarski.
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