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Promoting a Shared Society in Israel: Jews and Arabs Working Together
While Israel’s Arab minority has continued to grow (it’s now more than 20% of the entirety of Israel’s population), the tension between Jews and Arabs in Israel has continued to rise.
Purim and Women's Rights
Purim: A Study Guide on Women's Issues; Women's Rights We encourage you to use these Jewish texts and study questions to consider our Jewish values that speak to the issue of women’s rights and how they relate to human rights in general.
Affliction Beyond Hunger
Affliction Beyond Hunger by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice In our city today, some of our neighbors are forced to work in order to receive their meager welfare benefits, which barely enable them to survive.
Thanksgiving and Hunger
ADDRESSING HUNGER As we sit down with our family and friends at the Thanksgiving table and offer thanks for the bounty that is ours, we often forget about the thousands of people in America, Canada and around the world who do not share our prosperity.
Thanksgiving and Interfaith Relations
Interfaith Relations Since coming to North America, the Jewish community has reached out to other religious groups in order to make Thanksgiving an inter-faith day of worship, dialogue, and celebration.
Thanksgiving and Native American Relations
Native American and Jewish Relations The legend of the Thanksgiving story is known by every American and is retold from generation to generation. Although the American Indians are a central part of the Thanksgiving lore, our relationship with Native Americans, or First Nations, is minimal.
Independence and Canada Day: Immigrant Rights
INDEPENDENCE DAY AND CANADA DAY Immigrant Rights Although Independence Day or Canada Day might seem to be a strange time of year to welcome immigrants into our community, the aspects of freedom and patriotism that pervade Independence Day makes this a wonderful time to begin thinking about immigrant
A Passover Family Activity: Which of the Four Children Are You?
Explore the text of the Four Children through contemporary movies and pop culture. Help your older child (Grade Level(s) 4th grade and up) learn about the meaning of the text of the four children.
A Guide to Eating on Passover
You know how the food you eat can sometimes trigger memories? Jewish tradition knows this too, and a kosher for Passover diet is a yearly reminder of the Jewish people’s distant past as slaves in Egypt.
Passover is a Great Time to Talk With Teens About Israel
Whatever the call to spend next year in Israel means to your family, it is an opportunity to further engage young people in developing a personal connection to Israel. Perhaps also it is a chance to help them find a way to make a journey that could be the foundation for lifetime engagement.