A Just and Sustainable Society
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Daniel S. NevinsJuly 13, 2013Theme: Social JusticeWhat is your vision of a righteous city? This is an important question, because this week is known as Shabbat Hazon,...
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Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Judith HauptmanJuly 3, 2010Theme: Social JusticeWe all filled out census forms this year, as stipulated by the United States constitution. The closing date was March...
View ArticleThe Question of Fracking
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Abigail Treu August 2, 2008Theme: Social JusticeGolda Meir famously quipped: “Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the...
View ArticleThe Relevance of Tish'ah Be'av
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Joshua HellerAugust 2, 2000Theme: Social JusticeNext week, Jews around the world will observe Tisha B'av, mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples and...
View ArticleDo We Really Do Tzedakah?
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Marc WolfAugust 27, 2011Theme: Social JusticeDo we really do tzedakah?I have posed this question to fund-raisers and philanthropists, and most, if not all, have...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of Justice
Collection: Torah CommentaryProfessor Arnold M. EisenSeptember 3, 2011Theme: Social JusticeRousseau opened his famous essay on the ideal political order, "The Social Contract," by stating his intention...
View ArticleThe Commandment to Be An Upstander
Collection: Torah CommentaryDr. Ismar SchorschSeptember 9, 2000Theme: Social JusticeIn July, 1994, I returned to Esslingen, the medieval town not far from Stuttgart, Germany where my mother was born....
View ArticleDefining a Moral and Just Society
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Judith HauptmanJanuary 22, 2014Theme: Social JusticeSometimes an article in the newspaper reminds you of something in the Torah and makes you think in new ways about...
View ArticleAnd Now, You Pray?
Collection: Torah CommentaryMichael SummaOctober 21, 2014Theme: Social JusticePerformed by Richard Newman (speaking and vocals), Ronni J. Reich, and Michael Summa (speaking).“And Now, You Pray?”...
View ArticleOn Preventing the Hardening of Hearts
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Danielle UpbinJanuary 16, 2015Theme: Social JusticeAfter a long walk across the park on a Shabbat winter morning in New York City, services concluded, guests assembled...
View ArticleLaw and Justice
Collection: Torah CommentaryMartin OppenheimerFebruary 13, 2015Theme: Social JusticeAs an attorney, I am fascinated by the code of civil and criminal law contained in Mishpatim. In Egypt, law was made...
View ArticleOutside the Camp
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Julia AndelmanApril 24, 2015Theme: Social JusticeThe double parashah of Tazria-Metzora ranks at the top of the list of parshiyot to avoid for a bar or bat mitzvah. Its...
View ArticleDissent Is Not a Dirty Word
Collection: Torah CommentaryDr. Michal RaucherJune 19, 2015Theme: Social JusticeSometimes leaders are wrong, and sometimes those who are meant to protect us actually hurt us. This basic fact is...
View ArticleSeeing Inequity
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Stephanie RuskayAugust 14, 2015Theme: Social JusticeThis 52-year-old telegram could almost have been written today. So many people of color and their houses of worship...
View ArticleThe Syrian Refugee Crisis: Realities and Responses
The 2016 Henry N. and Selma S. Rapaport Memorial LectureMark Hetfield, President and CEO, HIASDr. Georgette F. Bennett, Founder and President, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding;...
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