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God, according to the Torah, created the world in six days and then rested on the seventh. This doesn’t mean that the world was perfect at the end of the sixth day of creation. Rather, God models the necessity of taking just one day to experience the world as it is, while acknowledging our own limitations in perfecting it.

Looking back can be terrifying. We are further protected by being a part of the covenantal community, thus we can look back safely, unflinchingly, to the very real horrors that have shaped our communities and our lives.

What is the Torah inscribed on our lands and in our hearts? What Torah do we bring with us into a new land?

The connection between Sukkot and immigration is incredibly rich.

You may be familiar with the notion about the wounded healer, popularized by the author Henri Nouwen in his book by that name. He asserts: “When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed...

Resources for Jewish clergy preparing to talk and teach about Israel on the High Holidays.

A self-proclaimed “melting pot,” a country that declared its independence by asserting that all men are created equal, should continue to be a sanctuary and refuge.

God entrusts us, flawed mortal beings as we are, with the responsibility to figure it out and take care of each other.

It is indisputable that there is serious, ongoing, and systemic racism in the institution of American law enforcement.

No matter the circumstances, each imprisoned and formerly imprisoned person deserves a life filled with dignity.