Resources for Responding to Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Prayers, text studies, divrei Torah, and general advice to the Jewish community, particularly American Jews, about how to help end the occupation.
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When Grief Turns to Rage

by Rabbi Joshua Stanton
Jewish leaders need to be authoritative and steadfast in ensuring that September 11th and its commemorations do not provide annual pretense for rage against Muslims (and Sikhs and the countless others conflated with Muslims). Nor can we allow political opportunists to seize upon our unresolved grief and pain once again. 
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Reflecting pool at the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan.

Reflections from Three Generations of T’ruah Leaders on the 20th Anniversary of the September 11 Attacks

by Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson
T’ruah’s growth over the last 20 years is intertwined with the events of September 11, 2001. We asked three writers who represent three “generations” of T’ruah leadership — Rabbi Gerry Serotta (founding), Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster (maturation), and rabbinical student Becky Jaye (future) — to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the attacks. As 9/11 recedes...
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Reckoning With the Harm We’ve Caused

by Rabbi Aaron Portman
According to the Netziv, the brit is meant as a healing salve. God knows the ways committing acts of violence may leave a permanent scar on those who commit them. Perhaps God is speaking from experience. 
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Embodying “Never Again”: Learning the Lessons of Pesach in time for Yom HaShoah

by Serena Oberstein
The horror stories we’re hearing about Uyghur people taken in the night, being separated from their families, having their heads shaved, put on trains, interned, forced into slave labor, and systematically murdered are all too familiar to the Jewish community.
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Being Like Reuben and Gad: What sort of allies will we be?

by Rabbi D'ror Chankin-Gould
Have you ever been the one white person, or one of the only, attending a Black activist event or protest? Have you been the one, or one of the only, men gathered in a Feminist space? Have you been the one cisgender individual in a room of Trans activists organizing for change? Have you ever...
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The Voice Trembles

by Rabbi Seth Goldstein
A few weeks ago I sat in a hearing room of the Washington State House Judiciary Committee. I was there to testify on behalf of a coalition of interfaith and Jewish groups for passage of a bill that would hopefully limit gun violence in my state. The bill would create an “extreme risk protection order,”...
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