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Zackary Sholem Berger
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Government & Country, United States of America, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
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United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., United States Immigration Policy, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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A prayer for a government when that government is causing pain through malicious policies. . . . |
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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
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Magid
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Freedom, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., haggadah supplements, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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We are hereby ready to fulfill our obligation of K’vod Habriot, respect for the dignity of every human being. We pray that our fellow citizens shall not be the source of suffering in others. We commit ourselves to raise our voices in support of universal human rights, to know the heart of the stranger, and to feel compassion for those whose humanity is denied. May our compassion lead us to fight for justice. Blessed is the Source of Life, who redeemed our ancestors from Egypt and brought us together this night of Passover to tell the story of freedom. May God bring us security and peace, enabling us to celebrate together year after year. Praised are you, Source of Righteousness, who redeems the world and loves justice and freedom. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Evan Markus and Bayit: Your Jewish Home
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Modern Miscellany, Purim Readings
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United States, social justice, civil rights, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillized readings in English, Women's History Month, tropified texts, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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Purim affirms Esther’s stand against official silencing, abuse of power, misogyny and anti-Semitism. At first an outsider, Queen Esther used her insider power to reveal and thwart official hatred that threatened Jewish life and safety. We celebrate one woman’s courageous cunning to right grievous wrongs within corrupt systems. The archetype of heroic woman standing against hatred continues to call out every society still wrestling with official misogyny, power abuses and silencing. For every official silencing and every threat to equality and freedom, may we all live the lesson of Esther and all who stand in her shoes: “Nevertheless, she persisted.” . . . |
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Aryeh Bernstein
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Well-being, health, and caregiving, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness
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activism, social justice, medical treatment, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Chicago, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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A disproportionate amount of the alarming gun violence in Chicago takes place on the South Side, yet the South Side lacks even a single level one adult trauma center. Consequently, gunshot victims sometimes minutes from death must be transported miles away to Downtown or North Side hospitals. In 2010, after Damien Turner, an 18-year-old resident of the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood, died waiting for an ambulance to drive him ten miles to a downtown hospital instead of two blocks to the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC), a grassroots collaboration of community organizations, faith leaders, and University of Chicago student groups began organizing the Trauma Center Coalition, dedicated to reopening a Level 1 adult trauma center at UCMC, the most well-resourced hospital on the South Side. So far, the university has refused. As part of the coalition’s ongoing campaign, last week [April 23, 2015], dozens of activists gathered on the university’s historic Midway field, for a vigil of prayer and song from different faith traditions. At dusk, participants lit candles to spell out “Trauma Center Now”, right across from the home of U. Chicago President Robert Zimmer, and then camped out for the night. As a representative of coalition partner Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, I was invited to offer a Jewish prayer, which is reproduced here; I read it in both the English and Hebrew. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Evan Markus and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Readings, Modern Miscellany
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United States, social justice, civil rights, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Hafatarot, Cantillized readings in English, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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In 2017, Rabbi David Evan Markus prepared the end of Dr. King’s famous speech read at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963) with trope (t’amim, cantillation). The following year on Facebook he shared a recording of the reading hosted on Soundcloud. Rabbi Markus writes, “This weekend at Temple Beth El of City Island, I offered the end of Dr. King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, which I set to haftarah trope because I hold Dr. King to be a prophet. When my community applauded, I offered President Obama’s response, ‘Don’t clap: vote.’ And do more than vote: organize, donate, volunteer, help, heal, advocate. Only then, in Dr. King’s words quoting Isaiah 40:5, will ‘all flesh see it together.'” . . . |
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Jack Kessler (trōpification), Marcia Prager and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Readings, Modern Miscellany
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United States, social justice, civil rights, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Hafatarot, Cantillized readings in English, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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These quotations from Dr. King’s speeches were edited by Rabbi Marcia Prager and set to Haftarah Trop by Hazzan Jack Kessler. This adaptation was first published in Kerem (Fall 2014), in Jack Kessler’s article, “English Leyning: Bringing New Meaning to the Torah Service.” . . . |
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Trisha Arlin (liturgist)
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Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, War
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מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Gaza, Justice, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Prayers for Israel from the Diaspora, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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A prayer for empathy and compassion in the face of calls for violence and vengeance. . . . |
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Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro
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Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
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19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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“Der Arme” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №77 on pp. 117-119. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №78 on pp. 141-144. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №81 on pp. 146-149. . . . |
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Jill Jacobs and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
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United States, democracy, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, 45th President of the United States, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, 116th Congress, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
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An invocation by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, offered at the opening dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations annual Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop, June 2019. . . . |
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