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Rosh HaShanah Thoughts: Sweetness comes from deeds that increase the Good in our world
Every year from the beginning of Elul. I particularly focus on the prayer in the daily morning service which we also recite during neilah on Yom Kippur,
Lord of all worlds! Master of all masters! Not upon our righteousness do we rely in supplication before You, but upon you boundless compassion. What are we? What are [...]
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- Nizzavim: What will we stand for in the coming days and in the new year?
- Balaq: Human Rights and adhering to a democratic process
- Shavuot: Recognize and do what is right
- Behuqqotay: Reward and Punishment
- Yom HaAtzmaut: What gives me the Strength to Celebrate
- Arik Ascherman: Rabbi-activist for the rights of Israelis, Palestinians, and foreign workers in Israel
- The work that we do is not fun: Tikkun Olam and Human Rights
- Tikkun olam: to make the world a little bit better
- Passover, The Omer and Human Rights
- Purim: Acts of justice bring us greater honor than the clothes of kings
- Teruma: Building a human tabernacle united through the inner sanctuary that dwells with each of us
- Fakhri El-Diab Arrested
- Beshallah: Building a society in which all can sing with joy
- Darkness has struck again
- Hayye Sara: Needs common to all humanity
- Lekh-Lekha: Living up to the moral heritage that Avraham and Sarah have bequeathed us
- Sukkoth: Symbolic versus authentic homelessness
- Selichot Ceremony
- Tisha Bav: Justice, Law and Righteousness
- Shabbat Hazon: What we must do to improve our situation
- Devarim: Act with tzedakah and mishpat in all that we do
- Tisha BAv: Human Rights and Self Criticism
- Mase: Making an enemy into a Friend
- Mattot: Human Rights and Collateral Damage
- Why I Will Demonstrate
- RHR Wins Court Victory: High Court Orders Security Forces to Protect Palestinian Farmers
- Qorah: Clarity in arguments in defense of Human Rights
- Nizzavim: For what are we willing to stand up, and how?
- Shavuot: A world based on righteousness, justice, goodness, mercy and faithfulness.
- Bemidbar: Reaching out to the ones we would normally turn away
- Behar: A vision of a just and caring society
- Behuqqotay: Respect the moral order
- Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman
- Emor: Unity and equality between Jews and non-Jews in front of the law
- Shemini: Partners with God
- Va’era: Hear each other’s narratives
- Miqqez: It is not too late to renew and fulfill the promises of old
- Vayyeze: The Image of God in all
- Noah: Knowing how to protest and to effect change
- Sukkoth: Peace, justice, involvement and caring for all people
- Ki-Tavo: Responsiblity to fulfill our Human Rights obligations
- Ki-Teze: We must stand in the breach and make sure that nobody is left behind
- Shofetim: Pursue justice through mitzvot of commission
- Devarim: You shall not be partial in judgement
- Shabbat Hazon: Misplaced Priorities in Society
- Mas’e: Expulsion, Democracy and Civil Disobedience
- Mattot: Find the formulas allowing all of us to have our basic Human Rights and needs met.
- Balaq: We cannot negotiate for peace on the one hand and violate Human Rights on the other
- Shemini: Quench this strange fire and return to the fire commanded by God
- Preventing Home Demolitions
- Pequde: Maintaining our belief in the goodness of people.
- There Is A Kippah In The Rubble
