Migrants and Refugees

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

...modern American politics have alienated the word dror from the Jewish concept of liberty.

Read at your seder table where your haggadah instructs you to read the midrash on “My Father Was A Wandering Aramean” during Magid.

T'ruah's haggadah helps transform the seder into a conversation about immigration, racism, workers' rights, and forced labor.

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

If America is to be the land of the free, a melting pot of diversity and equality, it too must clear the stones from the proverbial roads and build up pathways for immigrants, especially refugees and asylum-seekers.

I have just returned from the borderlands, where the conjoined cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez meet.

I can imagine a situation where Noah’s gut instinct was to just follow God, but I cannot fathom how he just sat there as the rain started to fall and didn’t do anything to try to save anyone. 

The work of pursuing justice, healing this world, feels at moments like a desert without a clear destination. The journey is hard and long, but when in the desert, when in the midst of suffering, when in despair, we are commanded not to lose hope.

...as we learn from Leviticus, for communal sin there can be expiation. The process begins not with bringing a bull to the sanctuary, but with a commitment to learn history, and a commitment to ensure that history is learned by others.