Israel / Palestine

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

It is not enough to mourn. Mourning must be accompanied by actions that end the harm being done. 

Israel is too important for us to throw up our hands and turn away, just because it feels like we’re losing. Israel needs us and we need them.

...being in Israel over the last several months has shown me almost daily how easy it is to defile something that’s important to us because of zealotry and jealousy. 

A prayer by Rabbi Ayelet Cohen for the State of Israel.

A resource for clergy speaking about Israel at 75.

As Jewish clergy we have an obligation to raise our moral voices against injustice being perpetrated at home and abroad.

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

The Mishkan was not just a compound our ancestors built; it is a state of mind that we can inhabit.

The al-Walaja olive tree is one of the oldest trees in the world... Today, as it bears fruit for this generation of residents, it also bears witness to the State of Israel demolishing the homes of some of those residents.