Freedom

The rhetoric of freedom is ascendant on the right today: freedom to carry guns, freedom of religious practice, freedom from government regulation. Judaism has a much wider take on what freedom means and how it is bound up with responsibility. Join the conversation about how we can make freedom work for everyone.

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Freedom of Movement in the Desert

Ethan Aronson (he/him) is the Campaign Director of Never Again Action, a Jewish-led mobilization against the persecution, detention, and deportation of immigrants in the United States.

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Fragments

An Afro-Jewish Reflection on Freedom

Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs, where he also has an appointment in Judaic Studies and Global Affairs.

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Poetry

Tefilat HaDerech: Prayer for Continuing on the Way

May the words and images of these pages become etched on the fragments of the heart we left behind with them.

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Torah is All About Freedom

Rabbi Michael Strassfeld (he/him) is the editor of the best selling Jewish Catalog, author of The Jewish Holidays, and co-author with Rabbi Joy Levitt of A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah.

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The Halakhah of Oppressive Speech

Laynie Soloman (they/them) serves as the Associate Rosh Yeshiva at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, where they co-founded the Trans Halakha Project.

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Fragments: Freedom

Fragments: Freedom is available for download!

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