Jewish Holidays
Are you seeking Jewish holiday resources to consider your responsibility to serve alongside vulnerable populations as part of your holiday observance?
Housing Justice
Important Facts to Know About Houselessness in America Today
How are Communities of Color and other vulnerable groups impacted by houselessness in America?
“Over the next four years the current Pandemic Recession is projected to cause chronic houselessness to increase 49 percent in the United States. Houselessness among working-age adults caused by the current recession is projected to peak in 2023, adding 603,000 working-age adults to those already without a place of their own to sleep in the United States.” Through this Sukkot guide, explore how various communities are being impacted by the current housing crisis and the systems in place which have led to the staggering statistics we see today.
Housing Justice
Racial Justice
History of Housing Discrimination in America Today
How did we get to the inequities that we’re seeing in today’s housing landscape? Explore how these systems were created.
Housing Justice
History of Housing Discrimination in America Today
How did we get to the inequities that we’re seeing in today’s housing landscape? Explore how these systems were created.
Land ownership has always been restricted in the United States. Houselessness in America has been persistent and prevalent for decades, what are the systemic causes of this inequity? Through this Sukkot inspired guide, explore historical legal decisions that have left lasting implications for oppressed communities in our society.
Housing Justice
Racial Justice
Shelter of Peace
Explore the relationship between the holiday of Sukkot, and housing insecurity in America today.
Housing Justice
Shelter of Peace
Explore the relationship between the holiday of Sukkot, and housing insecurity in America today.
During Sukkot we have a full week in which we can fulfill the obligation of “welcoming the stranger” into our temporary dwellings built to observe this holiday. This custom invites us to consider the needs of those who lack permanent shelter beyond the week of Sukkot. During this z’man simchateinu, season of joy, we are instructed to celebrate and provide so that everyone has what they need to celebrate Sukkot, regardless of their status in the community.. How does this holiday invite us to consider housing insecurity in America today? This guide can be utilized during the High Holiday season to explore our relationship to our unhoused neighbors, in advance of or during Sukkot.
Housing Justice
Ten Plagues of Housing Injustice
What modern plagues exist in our society that we ought to consider in this season? Learn more about housing injustice in America today.
“We place a drop on our plates for each one to acknowledge that the joy of liberation cannot be completed while many continue to be oppressed.” During the Passover Seder, we recall events that took place as part of the Exodus from Egypt, one aspect of this is the ten plagues. Through this haggadah insert, supplement the traditional plagues and consider plagues of housing injustice affecting the American landscape today.
Health Justice
The Four Questions for Making a Difference from a Distance
Just as there was uncertainty during the Exodus from Egypt, so too has there been surrounding the pandemic. How do we cope?
A major component of the Passover Seder is Maggid, telling our story. This haggadah insert explores The Four Questions from a different perspective than we might have heard before. Have you, your family, or your community been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? Does this Passover feel different from those of the past? Utilize this insert to discuss feelings that have arisen as a result of our socially distanced reality.
Racial Justice
Avadim Hayinu: We Were Slaves
This Haggadah insert explores modern struggles for liberation through the biblical story of Exodus that we tell during Passover.
The Haggadah explores liberation from oppressive regimes. This insert takes that concept and allows us to explore our relationship to this biblical narrative as a pathway to explore conversations surrounding oppression in modern times. Are you looking to explore your, or your community’s, relationship to the racial inequities in America? Utilize this insert during your Passover seder for a more in depth understanding of oppression today.
This insert was created in collaboration with Be’chol Lashon.
Food Justice
Racial Justice
Bread of Affliction: Matzah, Hunger, and Race
This Passover, utilize this conversation guide to explore the relationship between vulnerable communities and lack of access to nutritious food.
Food Justice
Bread of Affliction: Matzah, Hunger, and Race
This Passover, utilize this conversation guide to explore the relationship between vulnerable communities and lack of access to nutritious food.
“The barriers to buying, cooking, and eating healthy foods are real.” This Passover dinner conversation guide engages the oppression of the Israelites in the book of Exodus as a launchpad to discuss a lack of access to healthy and sustainable foods in modern communities. Utilize this guide in a group setting to discuss and explore your, and your community’s, relationship to food insecurity while considering the Passover season as an invitation to think about those experiencing food insecurity today.
This guide was created in partnership with Hazon, dedicated to creating healthier and more sustainable communities in the Jewish world and beyond.
Racial Justice
The Four People
Explore concepts tangential to our liberation story, and engage in focused conversations surrounding racial equity.
Racial Justice
The Four People
Explore concepts tangential to our liberation story, and engage in focused conversations surrounding racial equity.
“As we learn in our Passover retelling, the journey toward liberation and equity can be difficult to map out.” In this guide, you will find information on racial justice and Passover. Are you hoping to explore concepts tangential to our liberation story and engage in deep conversations this Passover season? This supplementary “Four People” Haggadah insert is best utilized as a dinner conversation guide.
This guide was created in partnership with the Jewish Multiracial Network.