#TorahForTheResistance in Parashat Tzav: we do ritual to hold space for the world’s imperfection — that’s that point.
This week’s Torah portion, Mishpatim, shows how justice and injustice can operate simultaneously in a colonial context. Perhaps it also reveals how injustice can be dismantled.
Jethro’s advice to Moses to stand up while administering justice and to work with other judges is powerful advice for justice seekers in how to play with their edge. If we wish to pursue justice, we must be willing to stand up, while seeking others so that we are not overwhelmed by the load.
We wake up nearing Inauguration Day in a dark and uncertain time. You are right to be worried. You are right to respond by running
“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed; it blesseth
Why I’m attending this ten-day activist gathering in the West Bank to oppose occupation with the Center for Jewish Non-Violence.
Violence, pain and occupation become the dimly lit hospital in which generations are born and the cemetery in which they are buried.
American Jews are too comfortable on this Tisha B’Av, Rebecca Grabiner writes. A quick remedy: visit the Palestinian territories.
View More