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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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Look, and Find Compassion

by Rabbi Debra Kassoff

Rabbi Debra Kassoff encourages us to look at things a little differently in this week's drash on Parshat Re'eh.

The Drought Down the Street

by Rabbi Jonah Rank

Rabbi Jonah Rank examines unequal distribution of resources and the impact it has on kids in this reading of Parshat Ekev.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.