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Gender Inside and Outside the Camp

Apr 17, 2026 By Joy Ladin | Commentary | Metzora | Shabbat Rosh Hodesh | Tazria

Most benei mitzvah would do anything to avoid having to talk aboutParashat Tazria-Metzora, a section of theTorah that focuses communal attention on intimate changes in human bodies. InLeviticus 13, God orders Israelites to notice and monitor intimate changes in one another鈥檚 bodies鈥攎enstruation, discharges, eruptions, inflammations, hair growth, 鈥渟welling, rash, discoloration,鈥� and so on. For example,Leviticus 13:2commands:

Seasons of Reckoning: The Practice of Moral Accounting

Mar 9, 2026

Sources | Presentation From our Learning Series: Seasons of ResponsibilityJoin us for a timely conversation co-sponsored by the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. Featuring Karenna Gore and Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, this program explores how traditions of moral reflection can guide us.In partnership with the Center for Earth Ethics About the Speaker […]

Between Fast and Feast: Hindu and Jewish Perspectives on Restraint and Responsibility鈥�

What does it mean to act responsibly when there is no guarantee of results? Jewish and Hindu traditions both turn to fasting as a practice of restraint and agency. Focusing on the Fast of Esther, alongside Hindu fasting traditions, this session explores how intentional self-restraint鈥攈eld in tension with celebration鈥攃an shape ethical responses to the climate crisis.

Law, Agency, and Ecological Responsibility: A Catholic鈥揓ewish Conversation Drawing on the Book of Esther

What does it mean to act responsibly when power is uneven, harm is systemic, and silence can feel safer than action? Drawing on the Book of Esther, this Catholic鈥揓ewish conversation reflects on moral agency, ecological responsibility, and the challenges of ethical decision-making within contemporary legal and institutional systems.

Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair

Winter-Spring 2026 Learning Series Across Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu traditions, the early spring season is a shared period of reflection, renewal, and ethical clarity. While rooted in different stories and practices鈥攆rom Tu BiShvat to Lent and Easter, from Ramadan to Holi and Passover鈥攖hese holidays collectively invite communities to consider how human choices shape the […]

Grappling with Slavery in Parashat Behar

May 23, 2025 By Marjorie Lehman | Commentary | Behar | Behukkotai

Parashat Behar is filled with powerful messages about building a just and compassionate society, emphasizing commandments to care for the land, support the poor, and treat hired workers with fairness and dignity. However, I find that Parashat Behar stirs up more discomfort than ethical inspiration. I am always struck by the difficult distinction it makes between Israelites and non-Israelites with regard to slavery. With the themes of Passover and the Israelites鈥� freedom from Egyptian bondage in my mind, I find it hard to reconcile that Leviticus 25 permits the enslavement of non-Israelites while protecting Israelites from such a fate.

Don鈥檛 Be the Terumah

Feb 21, 2025 By Stephanie Ruskay | Commentary | Mishpatim

Last week 91快播, The Rabbinical Assembly, United Synagogue Youth, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Camp Ramah, the Jewish Youth Climate Movement Powered by Adamah, and Congregation Adas Israel in Washington, DC, launched Ruchot, the first ever advocacy and lobbying training for Conservative Movement teens. We gathered as an erev rav (mixed multitude) of 36 teens from 11 states (and one Canadian), 7 rabbinical students, 6 rabbis, three youth director staff, and an Israeli shaliah.鈥�

On the Perils of Pregnancy: A Letter to Rivkah

Nov 29, 2024 By Rabbi Annie Lewis | Commentary | Toledot

Before you bravely took leave of your family, they blessed you that through your line would come thousands upon thousands of descendants. When you struggled to conceive, Yitzhak pleaded with God for you to bear children.

The Torah records how the boys thrashed about in your womb. 讜址讬执旨转职专止爪职爪讜旨 讛址讘指旨谞执讬诐 讘职旨拽执专职讘指旨讛旨. You cried out, 讗执诐志讻值旨谉 诇指诪指旨讛 讝侄旨讛 讗指谞止讻执讬, 鈥淚f this is how it is, why do I exist?鈥� (Gen. 25:22).