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Hashkiveinu השכיבנו

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

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

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

Talmud, Arachin, 15b

Lo Taamod - You Shall Not Stand Idly By

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.

Netivot Shalom, Lech Lecha

BabylonianTalmud, Shavuot 39a

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

Zohar, Midrash Hane’elam, Parshat Noah

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

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

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Genesis 37:21

Tzedek, tzedek tirdof – Justice, justice you shall pursue

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Dimensions of the Universe of Obligation

Leviticus 19:16

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

Jewish Advocacy

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 54b-55a

The Social Justice Imperative

Building Community Through Service

Minchat Shlomo, Vol. 2, 86:4

Isaiah 1:17

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

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

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

The Lord is My "Shepherd"?

Isaiah 58:1-7

Moses' Persistence & Our Persistent Fight Against Hunger

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

Proverbs 31:4-9

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

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

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

Shavuot and the Harvest of Torah

Numbers 14:36-38

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 6:1

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 17b

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Psalms 74:21

Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Rosh Hashanah 5769

Albert Einstein

Isaiah 56:1

BabylonianTalmud, Kiddushin 40b

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

Numbers 27:1-11

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

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

The Imperative to Act, Yom Kippur 5770

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

Ethics and Advocacy

Proverbs 22:6

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Texts on Activism

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

Crisis of Hope for LGBT Youth Continues

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat-Balak

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.

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

Exodus 23:6-9

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

What Does It Mean To Be A Leader?

Susan Weidman Schneider, Founder of Lilith Magazine

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

Babylonian Talmud, Moed Katan 27b

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

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

Psalms 118:19-20

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Nasso

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Yitro

The Jewish Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Darfur

International Aid: Jewish Sources and Discussion Questions

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

Text Study - JFREJ Shabbat Vigil for Domestic Workers

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

Shabbat HaGadol: Hunger Ain't a Game

Esther 4:14

Jewish Lenses on Disabilities, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses

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

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 67b

Beit Yosef Choshen Mishpat 14:1a

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

BabylonianTalmud, Yoma 82a

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

Isaiah 3:13-15

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

Ramban, Leviticus 19:2

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

Amos 6:12

Isaiah 58:7-11

Jews Eating Well - Not as Obvious as it May Seem

Sukkot and the Environment

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 9b

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

Ibn Ezra, Exodus 22:23

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

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

Babyloniam Talmud, Yoma 35b

Genesis 4:1-9

Isaiah 32:6-8

Learning Leads to Doing Which Leads to Learning...

Psalms 109:30-31

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

Midrash Tannaim - Deuteronomy 16:20 - A

Midrash Ruth Rabba 5:9

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

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

Chanukah 5769

Do the Right Thing: Moses as Model for Activism

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

Leviticus 25:35

Lech Lecha and The Places We Find G-d

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

Exodus 4:21

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 17a - C

Exodus 32: 7-14

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

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

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

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Matot-Masei

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

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

Proverbs 2:20

Psalms 113:7-9

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

Pay Attention

Dresher Havurah 30 October 2010

Exodus 33:18-23

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 12:6

Yom Kippur 5771

Because of this, Jews Joined the "Food Movement"

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

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

The Stranger, the Widow, and the Orphan

Psalms 119:121

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Pekudei

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tavo

Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne - Service Learning Required

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 2:10

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

Exodus 1:13-22

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

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

8th grade Jewish Environmental Justice text study

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

Deuteronomy 27:18-19

Proverbs 14:31

Texts on Protest

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

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 32a - 2

Mishna, Sotah 9:6

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 95a

Exodus 32:1

Ha’emek Davar, Leviticus 26:13

An Introduction to Social Action and Jewish Responsibility

Exodus 3:9-11

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:16

Joshua 20:9

Advocacy and Social Justice

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 32a

Rambam, Laws of Temperament 6:7

Passover: Slavery, Freedom and Migration

Arguing for the Sake of Heaven

So That Others Can Eat

"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).

Rambam, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 24:10

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tisa

Jewish Theological Seminary Press Release to Ordain Women, October 1983

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

Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashana 19a

Power and Responsibility: CJL May 2, 2012

Tu BiShvat: Going Back to the Basics

Rambam's Introduction to the Mishneh Torah

Jewish Roots in Environmental Justice

Ezekiel 18:5-24

Exodus 12:29-36

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

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 65b

Proverbs 12:25

Samuel I 2:7-8

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tzav

Jewish Texts on Health Care

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

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

Deuteronomy 21:1-9

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

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

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

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Sh'lach

Bearing Witness

Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 29a-b

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

5 Rules for Faith and Politics 2012

Exodus 3:7

Proverbs 11:24-25

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

Exodus 23:5

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:14

Exodus Rabbah 21:4

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

Psalms 146:7-9

Ecclesiastes 5:7

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

Isaiah

Prayer for Transgender Day of Remembrance, Reuben Zellman

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Noach

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 65b

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Terumah

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ha'Azinu

Esther 2:10

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tazria

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Metzora

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tetzaveh

Psalms 82:3-4

Jewish Ethics on Advocacy

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 Chayei Sarah

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Beshalach

If I kiss it, will I find Prince Charming? The Many Meanings Hiding Behind the Mezuzah

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

Ezekiel 22:6-12

Exodus 33:12-14

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vaera

Chanukah 5771

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Re'eh

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vaetchanan

Exodus 24:7

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Shemot

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 73a

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

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

Shulchan Aruch, Orech Chayyim 671:5

Leviticus 19:14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayigash

Metzudat David, Judges 4:4

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayetzei

Why?

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

Miriam, by Debbie Friedman

Responsibility 101

Genesis 18:23-25

Genesis 37:18-24

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

Don't Stand By

Jewish Sources on Education prepared in advance of RAC-TX Austin Advocacy Days March 25-26, 2019

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

Genesis 31:10

Prayer for Hurricaine Katrina, Rabbi Michael Paley (2005)

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

Rashi, Exodus 23:9

A Call to Action

Judges 4:4

Leviticus 22:28

Abraham as an advocate

Genesis 44:30

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayetzei

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

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

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayeshev

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

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

Stopping Torture Needs Unswerving Commitment

Sodom's Going Down For Real

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

Beruriah: A Woman Like No Other