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What We Can Learn from Ruth and Naomi about Mental Health
Shavuot offers a glimpse at how others in our tradition faced unimaginable and unremitting losses – and were sometimes helped to prevail. There are powerful lessons for us within the story of Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth.
Reform Jewish Institutions Affirm IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
As an important part of combatting the growth of antisemitism, the URJ, CCAR, WRJ, and ARZA, endorse the use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance "Working Definition of Antisemitism" as a tool for monitoring and raising awareness.
Reparations: Seeding a Better Future
In this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Bo, as the soon-to-be freed Israelites prepare to leave Egypt, the Egyptians are struck with the plagues of locusts, darkness, and death of the firstborn.
On Yom HaShoah, Hear the Message of the Saved Remnant
My mother’s answer to hate is love. When I asked her what she wishes for herself and for the world, she said, “For myself good health, so I can be good to others. For the world, peace not war. No bad person wins in the end. What did Hitler achieve?”
Roots of Justice
This sermon was given by Rabbi David Stern, an active member of the RAC-TX team, at the Joint Jewish and African American religious service with the Texas Legislative Black Caucus Conference on April 6, 2021.
Against Domestic Insurrection
This is a prayer in response to the rioting and attacks on the U.S.