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.
Joelle Novey directs Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA), through which congregations of many traditions are responding to climate change together, and speaks widely about the role of religious voices in the climate movement.
Alex Goldberg is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director.
Jonathan Backer is an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
Zach Luck is a father of four children. He lives in Ohio. This is the first poem he has published.