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Yom HaShoah: When Human Rights Become “Too Political”
I pledge to continue the call to recognize the sanctity of life for all human beings. I vow never to be silent in the face of oppression — no matter how “political” it may seem to some.
Yom HaAtzma’ut: A Resource for Educators
This resource has been created ahead of Yom HaAtzma’ut 2025 but is designed to be adaptable for year-round use, offering educational tools, programs, and texts that support ongoing learning within your community.
A Prayer for Gaza and to Preserve Our Humanity
By Rabbis Felicia Sol and Roly Matalon of B’nai Jeshurun in New York City.
CONTRASTING TRUTHS: The Aspirations and Limitations of American Democracy
Sofi Hersher Andorsky and Aaron Dorfman make the case for Jewish investment in liberal democracy.
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CONFRONTING THE MORAL CROSSROADS: Chile’s Jews from Dictatorship to Democracy
Author and journalist Maxine Lowy guides us through the story of how Chilean Jews and non-Jews endured when democracy was shattered, and how, over 17 years, Chileans fought successfully to restore it.
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D is for Democracy
Take heart and courage in the words of movement elder, poet, and essayist Aurora Levins Morales.
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Noach: Opportunities for Healthy Reboots Are Built into the Universe
Just as human choices brought about the flood and built the Tower of Babel, our choices in the election will determine where we go from here. And though the possibility of the bet-lamed of destruction is surely out there, so too is its opposite, lamed-bet — heart. In all of the anxiety, we can bring love to bear on the choices before us.
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ROUNDTABLE: How Can U.S. Jewish Communities Play an Effective Role in Coalition Work to Advance Multiracial Democracy?
A panel of pathbreaking organizers, including Ginna Green, Graie Hagans, Abby Lublin, Megan Black, Matthew David Hom, and Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD, on how Jews can advance multiracial pro-democracy coalitions today.
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Sukkot: Clinging to Possibility in the Face of Obstacles
The rabbis of the Talmud knew there would be times when we would have no choice but to build our sukkot beneath a thick shadow cast by mountains. They knew there would be moments when it would feel audacious to build a sukkah at all.
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Simchat Torah: Planting Seeds of Tears
Can we sing our longings this year in a way that lets all the feelings come through? Can we allow our heartbreak to summon us toward something new?
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Democracy: More Than Just Elections
Rabbi Jill Jacobs explores the wisdom Judaism can offer in building free societies.
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Yom Kippur: Ki Hu Nora v’Ayom — For It Is A Day of Awe & Threat
Unetaneh tokef grants us no illusion of covering up our failures, both of deed and of will. It says that we are counted and our deeds are measured, whether we like it or not. Our discomfort is what this day demands, not the easy promise of reconciliation and repentance.
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