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No More Standing Idly By: Ending Child Abuse An ELI Talk by Rabbi Yakov Horowitz

Out of Context: Misunderstanding the Bible Week 4: Shepherds and Kings – How We Think About God and Humanity

Israeli Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (http://www.knesset.gov.il/laws/special/eng/basic3_eng.htm)

Jewish Advocacy

Lo Taamod - You Shall Not Stand Idly By

Rabbi Chaim David Halevi, Aseh Lecha Rav 7:70-71

Jane Kanarek, " What does Tikkun Olam Actually Mean?" in Righteous Indignation: A Jewish call for Justice. eds Rabbi Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, and Margie Klein (Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008) P. 19

Talmud, Arachin, 15b

Paraphrased from Eliyahu E. Dessler, Strive for Truth: The Selected Writings of Rabbi E.E. Dessler, Part Two, translated into English and annotated by Aryeh Carmell (Jerusalem: Feldheim Publishers, 1988), pp. 52-57.

BabylonianTalmud, Shavuot 39a

Leviticus 19:16

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Genesis 37:21

Netivot Shalom, Lech Lecha

Tzedek, tzedek tirdof – Justice, justice you shall pursue

Building Community Through Service

The Social Justice Imperative

Minchat Shlomo, Vol. 2, 86:4

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

Isaiah 1:17

Dimensions of the Universe of Obligation

Text Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman.” Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.80-81

Shavuot and the Harvest of Torah

Marc Gopin, "Judaism, The Limits of War, and Conflict Resolution" (1991)

Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Pain of Others" (New York: Picador, 2003)

Psalms 74:21

Sefer HaManhig, Gates of Righteousness and Gemilut Chasadim, 715:2

Proverbs 31:4-9

On Jews Giving Tzedakah to non-Jews, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses

Abraham Joshua Heschel, "A Passion for Truth" (Jewish Lights Publishing, April 1995), p.24

Numbers 14:36-38

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

The Lord is My "Shepherd"?

Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 54b-55a

Isaiah 58:1-7

Moses' Persistence & Our Persistent Fight Against Hunger

Zohar, Midrash Hane’elam, Parshat Noah

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger, Sefat Emet, Parshat Terumah, Year 5660

Isaiah 56:1

Ethics and Advocacy

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 6:1

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat-Balak

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

Albert Einstein

Crisis of Hope for LGBT Youth Continues

Abe Rosenthal, Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case (California, Univ of California Press 1964), pp. xxvii-xxix

Rosh Hashanah 5769

Numbers 27:1-11

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 17b

Daniel Gordis, God Was Not in the Fire (New York: Touchstone, 1996), p.17.

The Imperative to Act, Yom Kippur 5770

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Texts on Activism

Exodus 23:6-9

Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, from "The Price of Brotherhood", The Empire Club of Canada Speeches 1955-1956 (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956) pp. 219-235

Susan Weidman Schneider, Founder of Lilith Magazine

Abraham Joshua Heschel, "A Prayer for Peace," 1971 from Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), p. 231.

What Does It Mean To Be A Leader?

BabylonianTalmud, Kiddushin 40b

Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael: Bo -- Mesechta d’Piskha 5

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Nasso

Proverbs 22:6

Responding to Disaster: Earthquake in Haiti (1/12/10)

Isaiah Berlin, "Politics and Philosophy," The Pursuit of Ideals (New York:The New York Review of Books, 1988).

Blu Greenberg, Statement [from the first National Jewish Women’s Conference], Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive), #2.

International Aid: Jewish Sources and Discussion Questions

“A Lay Sermon by a Young Lady,” a Yom Kippur Sermon by Ray Frank, 1890

Shabbat HaGadol: Hunger Ain't a Game

Babylonian Talmud, Moed Katan 27b

Rav Kook, "Lights of Holiness", trans. by Ben Zion Bokser (New York: Paulist Press, 1978), Ch.4

MJ Rosenberg, On Human Rights Standards (From "Sharansky's Double Standard," The American Conservative, Michael Desch, 2009)

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Yitro

Text Study - JFREJ Shabbat Vigil for Domestic Workers

Isaiah 3:13-15

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism (Pittsburgh: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1999).

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

Sukkot and the Environment

Ibn Ezra, Exodus 22:23

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 67b

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001) p. 200-201.

Rambam, Laws of the Murderer and Protecting Life 11:4

Beit Yosef Choshen Mishpat 14:1a

Isaiah 58:7-11

Psalms 118:19-20

Elie Wiesel [on Indifference], US News & World Report (27 October 1986).

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Remarks for Jewish Council for Public Affairs Feb 18, 2002

Exodus 32: 7-14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

Isaiah 32:6-8

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Matot-Masei

Jews Eating Well - Not as Obvious as it May Seem

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Judaism and Immigrant Rights (Jewish Funds for Justice).

BabylonianTalmud, Yoma 82a

Jewish Lenses on Disabilities, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses

Amos 6:12

Midrash Ruth Rabba 5:9

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 9b

Dr. Daniel Ziskin, Jews of the Earth, Golden, CO, June 20, 2000 (Testimony of COEJL Representatives at at U.S. Forest Service Hearings).

The Guiding Principles of Reform Judaism, The Columbus Platform - 1937

The Jewish Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Darfur

Ramban, Leviticus 19:2

Babyloniam Talmud, Yoma 35b

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001) p.19.

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

Psalms 119:121

Leviticus 25:35

Proverbs 2:20

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

Because of this, Jews Joined the "Food Movement"

Lech Lecha and The Places We Find G-d

Intention and Action: A Text Study on Responding to Global Hunger

Genesis 4:1-9

Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne - Service Learning Required

Elie Wiesel, (Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters). New York: 1972, p. 142-143.

Rabbi Elliot Dorff, "Why We Must Support Universal Health Care," (The Jewish Journal, 8/26/2009)

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tisa

"Kvod Ha'adam," State of Israel v. Guta, High Court of Justice of Israel, cited in Melissa Weintraub, "Kvod Ha-Briot" (Rabbis for Human Rights: 2005).

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tavo

Dresher Havurah 30 October 2010

Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, “A Rabbi in Politics?” from You are my Witness

Exodus 32:1

Yom Kippur 5771

Do the Right Thing: Moses as Model for Activism

Alan Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 6.

Chanukah 5769

Esther 4:14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Sh'lach

Arguing for the Sake of Heaven

So That Others Can Eat

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

Nechama Leibowitz, "And Our Oppression." Studies on the Haggadah from the Teachings of Nechama Leibowitz (New York: Urim Publications, 2002).

Jonathan Safran Foer, "Against Meat," The New York Times, 9 Oct. 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11foer-t.html.

Deuteronomy 27:18-19

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor 8:15-16

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 12:6

Learning Leads to Doing Which Leads to Learning...

Passover: Slavery, Freedom and Migration

8th grade Jewish Environmental Justice text study

R. Haskel Lookstein and Social Activism (From Rav Chesed: The Life and Times of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, page 55-56)

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Noach

Women's Empowerment and Leadership: Biblical Figures and Modern Philosophy

Jewish Theological Seminary Press Release to Ordain Women, October 1983

Texts on Protest

Advocacy and Social Justice

Jewish Ethics on Advocacy

Psalms 113:7-9

Exodus 4:21

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

Pay Attention

Face to Face with Injustice and facing how we act to stop it

Power and Responsibility: CJL May 2, 2012

Exodus 3:9-11

Deuteronomy 21:1-9

Exodus 33:18-23

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 32a

Rambam, Laws of Temperament 6:7

Nechama Leibowitz, "New Studies in Shemot," Parshat Shemot, (Israel: Haomanim Press, 1993), p. 41

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chayei Sarah

Psalms 109:30-31

Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashana 19a

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 17a - C

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 95a

Proverbs 11:24-25

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat

5 Rules for Faith and Politics 2012

Ezekiel 18:5-24

Rambam's Introduction to the Mishneh Torah

Jewish Roots in Environmental Justice

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vaera

Chanukah 5771

An Introduction to Social Action and Jewish Responsibility

Exodus 12:29-36

Excerpt from Brooklyn Bridge newspaper article "We are coming home"

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 32a - 2

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

Alan Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 3.

Blu Greenberg, Statement [from the first National Jewish Women’s Conference], Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive).

Debbie Friedman cited in A Journey of Spirit. Prod. Ann Coppel (Jewish Women's Archive), http://jwa.org/feminism/.

Psalms 146:7-9

Midrash Tannaim - Deuteronomy 16:20 - A

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Pekudei

Tanna de-vei Eliyahu Zuta I, Tzedakah, with commentary by Danny Gordis - as cited in "God Was Not in the Fire" by Danny Gordis, p. 15

Rabbi Avraham Weiss, “Women and the Reading of Megillah”, p. 16

Excerpt from "Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure," by Emma Goldman

The Stranger, the Widow, and the Orphan

Rabbi Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5 D2

Proverbs 14:31

Susannah Heschel, "Following in my father's footsteps: Selma 40 years later"

Joshua 20:9

Samuel I 2:7-8

Ruth Messinger, "We Must Help, and in the Right Ways," JTA- August 25th, 2009

Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, from “Jewish Wisdom” by Joseph Telushkin

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 2:10

Proverbs 12:25

Max Fisher, then president-elect to the CJF (Council of Jewish Federations) in “Highlights,” 1969 CJF General Assembly

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tetzaveh

Exodus 33:12-14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tzav

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:14

Exodus 1:13-22

Susannah Heschel, from the Jewish Women's Archive (http://jwa.org/feminism/)

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

Isaiah

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:16

Tu BiShvat: Going Back to the Basics

Rambam, Laws of the Murderer and Protecting Life 1:14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vaetchanan

Ha’emek Davar, Leviticus 26:13

Ezrat Nashim, "Call for Change," (Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement: 14 March 1972).

Ezekiel 22:6-12

Leviticus 19:14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Shemot

Rambam, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 24:10

Rabbi Ovadiah S'Forno, Commentary on Exodus 2:11-17

Exodus 23:5

Exodus 3:7

Margie Klein, "Preaching What I Practice: The Power of Jewish Organizing," in Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice. eds Rabbi Or. N Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Margie Klein (Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008) P. 37

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayetzei

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

Bearing Witness

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ha'Azinu

Mordechai Kaplan in "Judais as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life." (Jewish Publication Society of America, August 1994)

Katlan et al. v. The Prison Service et. al., High Court of Justice of Israel, (1980) 34(3) PD 294 at 305-307.

Prayer for Transgender Day of Remembrance, Reuben Zellman

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 65b

"Why We Went," a statement from prison signed by rabbis and Jewish lay leaders, St. Augustine, Florida,1964.

Rashi, Exodus 23:9

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

Genesis 18:23-25

Leonard Fein, excerpt from a 1969 speech on the Negro Revolution and the Jewish Community

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayigash

Esther 2:10

Miriam, by Debbie Friedman

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Re'eh

A Teaching About Jewish Responses to Human Need, by Rabbi David Rosenn

Mishna, Sotah 9:6

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Terumah

Prayer for Hurricaine Katrina, Rabbi Michael Paley (2005)

Exodus Rabbah 21:4

Why?

Judges 4:4

Psalms 82:3-4

Laura Geller, "Jewish Feminism: Go To Yourself!" The Shalom Center, 17 June 2005.

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 73a

Ecclesiastes 5:7

Efraim Zuroff, "A Plea for Jewish Action Against the Crimes Being Committed in Darfur" (Edah), http://www.edah.org/zuroff.cfm.

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayeshev

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Metzora

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

Shulchan Aruch, Orech Chayyim 671:5

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Beshalach

Responsibility 101

Genesis 31:10

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

Rashi, Leviticus 25:35 (cf. Torat Kohanim, Sifre Behar, Chapter 5)

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tazria

Exodus 24:7

Abraham Joshua Heschel, A Passion for Truth, p. 34

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayetzei

Franza Kafka, ('Passers-by' in Contemplation). 1912.

1 Year Later: Partnering with Post-Earthquake Haiti -- Ki Tissa

Don't Stand By

Genesis 44:30

"Conversation with Eve Ensler," Interview by Marianne Schnall, Feminist.com, 3 Oct. 2006.

A Call to Action

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 65b

Jewish Texts on Health Care

Rabbi Sidney Schwarz, “Can Social Justice Save the American Jewish Soul?”, Judaism, Justice, and American Life, p.9

Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 29a-b

Abraham as an advocate

Metzudat David, Judges 4:4

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

Genesis 37:18-24

Leviticus 22:28

Hillel of Greater Philadelphia Staff Training: A Jewish Call to Action

The Hillel Tu B'Shvat Seder, The Importance of Trees

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

Stopping Torture Needs Unswerving Commitment

Sodom's Going Down For Real