Welcome to Emor, where Jewish sources old and new invigorate our commitment to human rights and propel us to action.

Emor | אמור (v): Speak!

We’re bringing together people from all corners of the Jewish community to ask big questions, study Jewish texts, and hold courageous conversations about today’s most important moral and political issues.

Rabbi Elazar said: How do we know that words are like actions? It says in Psalms (33:6): “By the word of God were the heavens created.” (Talmud Shabbat 119b)

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We are bold, creative, and relevant Jewish ideas that the progressive movement needs

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We are a home for people who are passionate about justice and want to connect their commitments to their Judaism

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We are an answer to the concerted, organized backlash to racial justice, feminism, LGBTQ rights, and immigration

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We are words that create worlds

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Emor Bookshelf

Each month, we ask a leading Emor contributor to tell us about one book they read recently that is speaking to our moment.

Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff

Rushkoff’s call towards re-prioritization and rethinking our own place within the world is, itself, a call towards messianic action.