Protectionהגנה

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)

Lo Taamod - You Shall Not Stand Idly By

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

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.

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

BabylonianTalmud, Shavuot 39a

Netivot Shalom, Lech Lecha

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

Jewish Advocacy

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Genesis 37:21

Tzedek, tzedek tirdof – Justice, justice you shall pursue

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Leviticus 19:16

Dimensions of the Universe of Obligation

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

The Social Justice Imperative

Zohar, Midrash Hane’elam, Parshat Noah

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

Building Community Through Service

Minchat Shlomo, Vol. 2, 86:4

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 54b-55a

Isaiah 1:17

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

The Lord is My "Shepherd"?

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

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

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

Shavuot and the Harvest of Torah

Proverbs 31:4-9

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

Isaiah 58:1-7

Psalms 74:21

Moses' Persistence & Our Persistent Fight Against Hunger

Numbers 14:36-38

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

Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 6:1

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

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 17b

Albert Einstein

Rosh Hashanah 5769

Isaiah 56:1

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

Ethics and Advocacy

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat-Balak

The Imperative to Act, Yom Kippur 5770

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

Crisis of Hope for LGBT Youth Continues

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

Numbers 27:1-11

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

BabylonianTalmud, Kiddushin 40b

Proverbs 22:6

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

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.

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

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Texts on Activism

Susan Weidman Schneider, Founder of Lilith Magazine

What Does It Mean To Be A Leader?

Exodus 23:6-9

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Nasso

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

Babylonian Talmud, Moed Katan 27b

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

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

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

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

Psalms 118:19-20

International Aid: Jewish Sources and Discussion Questions

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

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Yitro

Beit Yosef Choshen Mishpat 14:1a

Shabbat HaGadol: Hunger Ain't a Game

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

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

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 67b

Text Study - JFREJ Shabbat Vigil for Domestic Workers

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

Isaiah 3:13-15

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

Jews Eating Well - Not as Obvious as it May Seem

BabylonianTalmud, Yoma 82a

Sukkot and the Environment

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

Isaiah 58:7-11

Jewish Lenses on Disabilities, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses

The Jewish Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Darfur

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Korach

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

Ibn Ezra, Exodus 22:23

Amos 6:12

Esther 4:14

Ramban, Leviticus 19:2

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

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

Midrash Ruth Rabba 5:9

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 9b

Babyloniam Talmud, Yoma 35b

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

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).

Isaiah 32:6-8

Genesis 4:1-9

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Matot-Masei

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

Learning Leads to Doing Which Leads to Learning...

Do the Right Thing: Moses as Model for Activism

Leviticus 25:35

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

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

Proverbs 2:20

Psalms 109:30-31

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

Dresher Havurah 30 October 2010

Because of this, Jews Joined the "Food Movement"

Lech Lecha and The Places We Find G-d

Pay Attention

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 12:6

Chanukah 5769

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.

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

Yom Kippur 5771

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

Exodus 33:18-23

Exodus 32:1

Psalms 119:121

Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne - Service Learning Required

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

Exodus 4:21

"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).

Texts on Protest

Psalms 113:7-9

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 2:10

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

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

The Stranger, the Widow, and the Orphan

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tisa

Arguing for the Sake of Heaven

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tavo

So That Others Can Eat

8th grade Jewish Environmental Justice text study

Deuteronomy 27:18-19

Advocacy and Social Justice

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 95a

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 32a

An Introduction to Social Action and Jewish Responsibility

Jewish Theological Seminary Press Release to Ordain Women, October 1983

Exodus 3:9-11

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

Midrash Tannaim - Deuteronomy 16:20 - A

Passover: Slavery, Freedom and Migration

Tu BiShvat: Going Back to the Basics

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 17a - C

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

Power and Responsibility: CJL May 2, 2012

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

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

Rambam's Introduction to the Mishneh Torah

Ha’emek Davar, Leviticus 26:13

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

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

Exodus 12:29-36

Ezekiel 18:5-24

Deuteronomy 21:1-9

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Pekudei

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:16

Rambam, Laws of Temperament 6:7

Proverbs 11:24-25

Rambam, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 24:10

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

Samuel I 2:7-8

Proverbs 14:31

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

Jewish Roots in Environmental Justice

Joshua 20:9

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

Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashana 19a

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Sh'lach

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

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 65b

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

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

Proverbs 12:25

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

5 Rules for Faith and Politics 2012

Psalms 146:7-9

Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 32a - 2

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

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:14

Jewish Ethics on Advocacy

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Noach

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chayei Sarah

Bearing Witness

Mishna, Sotah 9:6

Exodus 1:13-22

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

Isaiah

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

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

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

Ezekiel 22:6-12

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Re'eh

Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 29a-b

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chukat

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Shemot

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tetzaveh

Chanukah 5771

Exodus 3:7

Exodus Rabbah 21:4

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 Vaera

Esther 2:10

Exodus 23:5

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayigash

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vaetchanan

Exodus 33:12-14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tzav

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

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

Psalms 82:3-4

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Beshalach

Ecclesiastes 5:7

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

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

Why?

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Terumah

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bereshit

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayetzei

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 65b

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ha'Azinu

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

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 Bereshit

Exodus 24:7

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

Genesis 18:23-25

Shulchan Aruch, Orech Chayyim 671:5

Miriam, by Debbie Friedman

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Bo

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Metzora

Prayer for Hurricaine Katrina, Rabbi Michael Paley (2005)

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

Jewish Texts on Health Care

Responsibility 101

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

Leviticus 19:14

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Tazria

Genesis 37:18-24

Rashi, Exodus 23:9

Judges 4:4

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 73a

Don't Stand By

A Call to Action

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Toldot

Genesis 31:10

Metzudat David, Judges 4:4

Abraham as an advocate

Genesis 44:30

Remembering the Invisible Minority (Jewish Disability Awareness Month)

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayetzei

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

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

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

AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayeshev

Leviticus 22:28

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

Stopping Torture Needs Unswerving Commitment

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

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

Sodom's Going Down For Real

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

Beruriah: A Woman Like No Other