Resources

Rabbi Darah Lerner uses the labor laws of Ki Tetze to discuss the treatment of workers in our own times.

Rabbi Amy Small asks us to widen the path of justice in this week's d'var Torah on Parshat Shoftim.

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

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

Rabbi Joshua Strom advises us to "act like we've been there" when we read VaEt'chanan.

In this week's commentary on Devarim, Rabbi Francine Roston reflects on the need to understand and process trauma before moving forward.

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.

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.

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.

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.