There is no justice in answering violence with more violence. It’s not only that the death penalty is ridden with racism and gross inequity, and that every execution potentially risks the life of an innocent. It’s that all people—even those capable of great harm—have infinite worth, and we all—even those most set in their ways—possess the capacity for growth and change. None of us has the right to deny that to another.

A Call to Abolition - Rabbi Sharon Brous

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Weekly Parsha Study with Rabbi David Kasher
Full unedited class: https://youtu.be/tQGKQYEjVKA
Source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/563716?lang=bi

Kedoshim Couplets / Parshat Kedoshim - Rabbi David Kasher

Holiness is recognizing that what looks like the whole story is always, necessarily, only part of the story.  It's the stretch that moves us beyond what we know and what we’ve seen and into what we can imagine and dream.

Beyond the Limits - Rabbi Morris Panitz

Weekly Parsha Study with Rabbi David Kasher from 5.2.2024.
Full unedited class: https://youtu.be/O-gaUHURJBA
Source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/562111?lang=bi

A Queasy Land / Parshat Aharei Mot - Rabbi David Kasher

With Auschwitz Survivor Ella Mandel and Amit, Zeve, and Oren 
Zilberstein, Jason Neidleman, and Alexia Gyorody, the second, third, and
 fourth generation of family members who both survived and perished in 
the Shoah. As living survivor numbers dwindle, we will explore together 
how we can understand and hold their experiences in ways that co-create a
 more just, humane and dignified future for one another and our world. 
Co-produced by Peanut Productions.

Videos by The Righteous Conversations Project:
- To Life: The Ella Mandel Story created in collaboration with Sinai 
Akiba
- Dreams of Yisrael: The Story of Yisrael Zilberstein created in 
collaboration with IKAR Limudim

IKAR Reflects I Yom HaShoah 2024

We must have zero tolerance for violent and racist rhetoric in our Jewish community. We must support the birth of a new mixed multitude: those who reject extremism, who reject the violent, reductive idea that Palestinians and Jews must be eternal enemies. That one’s victory necessitates another’s victimhood, or even worse: elimination. This mixed multitude is made of people who know that we do not undermine our own sorrow or betray our own people when we see one another, those who understand that our fates are all tied up in one another.

A Call to Abolition - Rabbi Sharon Brous

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