Ki Teitzei: On the Health of Our Planet (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. Source: NASA (December 1968). One of the first […]
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Va’etchanan: Whitney Houston, Camp, and Building our Future
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine (the waterfront at URJ Camp George at sunset, […]
Pinchas: Demanding rights, then and now (Numbers 25:10- 30:1)
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine The Daughters of Zelophehad, print, after Frederick Richard […]
Hukkat-Balak: Who Is Responsible for Burying the Dead?
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. (The Death of Aaron, c. 1896-1902, by James […]
Korach: Rebels vs Reactionaries, and Strength in Diversity (Numbers 16:1-18:32)
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine In the early 1990s, Susan Faludi published a […]
Sh’lach: Communal Reliance (Numbers 13:1-15:41)
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine וַיַּ֧הַס כָּלֵ֛ב אֶת־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר עָלֹ֤ה נַעֲלֶה֙ וְיָרַ֣שְׁנוּ […]
Beha’alotcha: Queering Chronology (Numbers 8:1 – 12:16)
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine Existing as a Black, bisexual Jew is a […]
Nasso: On PaRDeS and Speaking Out Against Judgmental Literalism
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine As we prepare to celebrate the month of […]
Bamidbar: The Wander Years and Traveling Together
Introduction to Sefer Bamidbar: The Wander Years by Rabbi Dara Lithwick The fourth book of Moses, Bamidbar (“in the desert”), begins where the book of Exodus left off: with the […]
Behar-Bechukotai: On humility, complacency, racial justice and equity, and the work that we cannot desist from
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. This week’s portion, Parashat Behar-Bechukotai, brings Vayikra, the […]