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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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Arts of Losing: Joseph and His Brothers, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy

by Joy Ladin

Joy Ladin applies the 'art of losing' to Joseph, his brothers, and religious nationalists in this d'var torah for Parshat Vayechi.

We Choose To Keep People Hungry. We Don’t Have To.

by Abby Leibman, with Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson

Abby Leibman analyzes our attitudes towards hunger in this d'var torah on parshat Vayigash.

One Candle at a Time

by Jeremy Ben Ami

Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street offers a small candle of hope (originally published in 2019).

Walking in Tamar’s Shoes

by Cindy Greenberg

Cindy Greenberg examines the troubling story of Tamar in this d'var torah on Parshat Vayeshev.

Discomposing Our Culture of Toxic Masculinity

by Rabbi Sharon Brous

Rabbi Sharon Brous calls for an end to toxic masculinity as we read about the rape of Dina in this week's torah portion, Vayishlach.

Healing the Rift: Jacob’s Ladder & the Great Law of Peace

by Rabbi Zelig Golden

When President Trump announced that he would no longer receive The New York Times or Washington Post at the White House, I was struck that a sitting President would brazenly cut out half of America’s civil discourse to justify his domination of American politics. I felt how deep the rift in our politics has become,...