“There are people hurting, there are people suffering, so we have an obligation, a mandate, to do something.”
John Lewis
As Reform Jews, our history is steeped in the struggle for justice. “Tzedek, Tzedek tirdof!” our Torah instructs
As our WRJ travelers in Israel visited Yad Vashem this week, they shared their family stories of loss and survival. After a powerful morning, WRJ Secretary and WRJ Israel Trip Co-Chair Karen Goldberg shared these reflections, and then the group joined together
“Give ear, O heavens, let me speak;
Let the earth hear the words I utter!
May my discourse come down as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
Like showers on young growth,
Like droplets on the grass.”
(Deuteronomy 32:1-2)
So begins the last great lecture of