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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

Jewish Advocacy

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

Isaiah 1:17

Shavuot and the Harvest of Torah

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

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

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

Lo Taamod - You Shall Not Stand Idly By

BabylonianTalmud, Shavuot 39a

Talmud, Arachin, 15b

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Genesis 37:21

The Social Justice Imperative

Minchat Shlomo, Vol. 2, 86:4

Leviticus 19:16

Psalms 74:21

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.

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

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

Netivot Shalom, Lech Lecha

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

Ethics and Advocacy

The Lord is My "Shepherd"?

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat-Balak

Dimensions of the Universe of Obligation

Proverbs 31:4-9

Tzedek, tzedek tirdof – Justice, justice you shall pursue

Crisis of Hope for LGBT Youth Continues

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

Building Community Through Service

Numbers 14:36-38

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Isaiah 56:1

Moses' Persistence & Our Persistent Fight Against Hunger

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

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 6:1

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Nasso

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

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

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.

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

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

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Texts on Activism

BabylonianTalmud, Kiddushin 40b

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

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Isaiah 58:1-7

Rosh Hashanah 5769

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Yitro

Shabbat HaGadol: Hunger Ain't a Game

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

Text Study - JFREJ Shabbat Vigil for Domestic Workers

Albert Einstein

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

Numbers 27:1-11

International Aid: Jewish Sources and Discussion Questions

The Imperative to Act, Yom Kippur 5770

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

What Does It Mean To Be A Leader?

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

Ibn Ezra, Exodus 22:23

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

Susan Weidman Schneider, Founder of Lilith Magazine

Sukkot and the Environment

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

Babylonian Talmud, Moed Katan 27b

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 67b

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

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

Isaiah 58:7-11

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

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 54b-55a

Amos 6:12

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

Isaiah 3:13-15

Exodus 32: 7-14

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

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 17b

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

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

Beit Yosef Choshen Mishpat 14:1a

Psalms 119:121

Proverbs 22:6

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

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 9b

Because of this, Jews Joined the "Food Movement"

Isaiah 32:6-8

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

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

Leviticus 25:35

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tisa

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Matot-Masei

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Sh'lach

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

"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).

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tavo

Lech Lecha and The Places We Find G-d

The Jewish Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Darfur

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

Jewish Lenses on Disabilities, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses

Yom Kippur 5771

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

Genesis 4:1-9

Midrash Ruth Rabba 5:9

Ramban, Leviticus 19:2

So That Others Can Eat

Babyloniam Talmud, Yoma 35b

Power and Responsibility: CJL May 2, 2012

Zohar, Midrash Hane’elam, Parshat Noah

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

Dresher Havurah 30 October 2010

Psalms 118:19-20

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vaera

Deuteronomy 27:18-19

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 12:6

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

Rambam, Laws of Temperament 6:7

Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne - Service Learning Required

Exodus 32:1

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

BabylonianTalmud, Yoma 82a

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

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

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashana 19a

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Noach

Passover: Slavery, Freedom and Migration

Arguing for the Sake of Heaven

Chanukah 5769

Jews Eating Well - Not as Obvious as it May Seem

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

Do the Right Thing: Moses as Model for Activism

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

8th grade Jewish Environmental Justice text study

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 17a - C

Psalms 113:7-9

Joshua 20:9

Rambam's Introduction to the Mishneh Torah

Proverbs 2:20

Deuteronomy 21:1-9

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

Jewish Theological Seminary Press Release to Ordain Women, October 1983

Texts on Protest

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Pekudei

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

Proverbs 11:24-25

5 Rules for Faith and Politics 2012

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

Exodus 3:9-11

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tzav

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

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

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

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

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

Learning Leads to Doing Which Leads to Learning...

Exodus 33:12-14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tetzaveh

Esther 4:14

Leviticus 19:14

Pay Attention

Mishna, Sotah 9:6

Isaiah

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:14

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 95a

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

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

Jewish Roots in Environmental Justice

Exodus 12:29-36

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

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

Samuel I 2:7-8

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

Responsibility 101

Exodus 3:7

Ha’emek Davar, Leviticus 26:13

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

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

Midrash Tannaim - Deuteronomy 16:20 - A

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Terumah

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Metzora

An Introduction to Social Action and Jewish Responsibility

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

Psalms 82:3-4

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chayei Sarah

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Shemot

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Re'eh

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

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

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

Chanukah 5771

Metzudat David, Judges 4:4

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

Genesis 18:23-25

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:16

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 73a

Proverbs 14:31

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

Advocacy and Social Justice

Rambam, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 24:10

Psalms 109:30-31

Proverbs 12:25

Miriam, by Debbie Friedman

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 32a - 2

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 65b

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 32a

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

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

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

Prayer for Hurricaine Katrina, Rabbi Michael Paley (2005)

Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 29a-b

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Beshalach

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vaetchanan

Jewish Texts on Health Care

Don't Stand By

Esther 2:10

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 2:10

Genesis 31:10

Exodus Rabbah 21:4

Ecclesiastes 5:7

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tazria

Tu BiShvat: Going Back to the Basics

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

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

A Call to Action

Psalms 146:7-9

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

Ezekiel 18:5-24

Ezekiel 22:6-12

Shulchan Aruch, Orech Chayyim 671:5

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 65b

The Stranger, the Widow, and the Orphan

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

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

Exodus 23:5

Leviticus 22:28

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayetzei

Why?

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayeshev

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayigash

Exodus 4:21

Exodus 33:18-23

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

Genesis 44:30

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 Vayetzei

Stopping Torture Needs Unswerving Commitment

Exodus 24:7

Rashi, Exodus 23:9

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ha'Azinu

Abraham as an advocate

Prayer for Transgender Day of Remembrance, Reuben Zellman

Genesis 37:18-24

Exodus 1:13-22

Judges 4:4

Bearing Witness

Jewish Ethics on Advocacy

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