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Screenshot from "Prince of Egypt," as Moses begins to feel pangs of empathy for Hebrew slaves
Posted inPassover

Passover is a time to practice empathy for ‘the stranger’ among us

Rabbi Lavey Derby by Rabbi Lavey Derby April 15, 2019April 15, 2019
Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf with the leader of a collective of midwives in Guatemala
Posted inOpinion

Guatemalan midwives taught me the meaning of moral courage

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf February 20, 2019February 20, 2019
Torah ark key inscribed in Hebrew "gift to the great synagogue," Northern Italy, 1724-1725
Posted inCulture

With ‘Memory Objects,’ immigrants carried their own history

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 20, 2019February 22, 2019
Afghan immigrant children at Camp Nefesh, a Jewish-run day camp in Sacramento (Photo/Joan Cusik)
Posted inBay Area, Northern California

In Sacramento, a Jewish day camp for Afghan refugee kids

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn August 13, 2018August 14, 2018
Whole families came to a protest at a migrant detention facility in McAllen, Texas, to speak out against the family separation policy. (Photo/Sonia Daccarret)
Posted inUncategorized

As parents, we were compelled to visit a Texas immigrant detention center

Sonia Daccarett headshotHoward Kleckner headshotSuzanne Browne Mead by Sonia Daccarett, Howard Kleckner and Suzanne Browne Mead July 3, 2018July 2, 2018
the front page of an 1898 issue of the forward
Posted inArt, Culture, Music

Folk Chorus concert tells immigrants’ Yiddish stories

by J. Staff June 8, 2017June 7, 2017

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