Rabbi David Siedenberg asks, “What is the purpose of shiluach haken, the commandment to send away a parent bird before one can take the eggs or babies for oneself?”
This is part of Jewschool’s poetry series on Lamentations for our modern cities and urban justice, by Adam Gottlieb: “America feeds on its children: / Bodies run through pipelines”
Lamentations 4: An elegy from eikha for today’s cities: “What you see is the same; what you hear is a cup / Full of coins and a homeless guy asking for change.”
The last episode of Global Torah Podcast asks about the challenges – and opportunities – of living Jewishly while serving in the developing world.
The penultimate episode of the Global Torah Podcast: Are some motivations for global service as Jews more “pure” than others?
Not a single session at the East Bay JCC addressed Israel’s occupation — so we at IfNotNow held our own vigil there that night. Here’s why.
Is there a connection between serving God and serving humanity? Listen to the third episode of Global Torah Podcast with Rabbi Micha Odenheimer and Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan.
Global Torah podcast features insights from both scholars of Jewish tradition and practitioners of international development, launched by partners OLAM and the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies.
The vision of those who founded the state, as inscribed in the Declaration of Independence, was of a state based on the principles of freedom, justice and peace, as envisioned by Israel’s prophets. This Independence Day, alongside celebrations of our national freedom, we must ask ourselves if we have fulfilled the dream of our founding fathers, or whether the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian people prevents us from establishing a society based on freedom, justice and peace.
Jewschool is proud to partner with the first Jews of Color National Convening on May 1-3 in NYC and to host a series written by Jews of color about their movement for greater racial justice within and by the American Jewish community.