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People You Should Know About: Sister Pat Murphy and Sister JoAnn Persch
This past Friday morning, members of my congregation and I participated in an interfaith vigil at the immigrant detention facility in Broadview, IL. We’ve come to this spot many times over the years...
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The Uprooted and Unwanted: A Sermon for Tzedek Chicago’s First Yom Kippur...
Like you, I’ve been profoundly horrified by the refugee crisis that has resulted from Syria’s ongoing civil war. The reports and images and statistics continue to roll out every day and the sheer...
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Lamentation for a New Diaspora
photo credit: NateHallinan.com I’ve just written a new poetic take on Lamentations, the Biblical book traditionally read on the Jewish festival of Tisha B’Av (The Ninth of Av). The context of...
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Prayer for the Poor People’s Campaign
photo: Clayton Patterson (Delivered at the Poor People’s Campaign Rally for Action, Grace Lutheran Church, Evanston, March 22, 2018.) Friends, let us bless: This is a blessing for the ones who stand up...
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For Tisha B’Av: “Lamentation for a New Diaspora”
photo credit: NateHallinan.com The Jewish festival of Tisha B’Av begins this Saturday evening, July 21. In anticipation of the day, I’m reposting the new poetic take on Lamentations that I wrote last...
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Seder Readings for Passover 5780
I’ve just finished “Fight for the Health of Your Community” – a new collection of Passover seder readings I wrote for members of my congregation. I’m happy to share them with the wider world as well –...
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“It’s Time for All-Out Freedom” A Passover Guest Post by Maya Schenwar
Remarks delivered by Maya Schenwar (editor of Truthout and author of “Locked Down, Locked Out” and the upcoming “Prison by Any Other Name”) at the Tzedek Chicago Passover Seder, April 14, 2020. A few...
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The World to Come: Sermon for Rosh Hashanah 5781
photo: Thahitun Mariam/Bronx Mutual Aid Network On Rosh Hashanah, Jewish tradition comes to tell us every new year that everything we’ve ever known is on the line. The zodiac sign for Tishrei, the...
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Hanukkah Is About Resistance. Let’s Resist This COVID Spike Through Mutual Aid
Volunteers from a nonprofit organization provide food supplies to people who line up ahead of Thanksgiving amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on November 20, 2020....
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On Shavuot, the Book of Ruth and Palestinian Exile
On the surface, the Book of Ruth, the Biblical story traditionally read on the Jewish festival of Shavuot (which began last evening), appears to be a simple parable about two women struggling to...
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