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As we celebrate receiving the Torah amidst the brokenness of a world struggling with rising authoritarianism and rife with human rights abuses, each of us committed to the work of repairing that world is called to think through how these pieces of our lives fit together.

Now is the time we need to reach into the abundant depths of justice… We can not tend to everything at once, but we can each do something.

Rabbi Doug Alpert on the promise of the jubilee year.

All of Torah is within us... The options that we can individually access may be different than our neighbor’s, but no less vital to the project of bringing justice and healing to this world.

If I am to take seriously the command to love my neighbor, I have to speak out against what is happening in Israel, in particular the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank.

We must be able to identify when something “like” a plague has affected us, but also to recognize when there are limits to our own perspective.

When leadership acts for their own interests, instead of thinking of all of the people they were elected to serve, everyone is put in danger.

"I recently asked a group of religious school students what their favorite Passover food was. Unsurprisingly, many answered with the usual suspects: matzah ball soup, chocolate-covered matzah, and so on. But a few shouted out a surprising answer: parsley dipped in salt water."

We know the heart of the stranger and we cannot allow ourselves to lose sight of these people, or allow statistics to blur them and their lives into a faceless “issue.”

Through this new haggadah supplement from T’ruah, bring the fight for immigration justice into your seder.