Immigration
“You shall not oppress the stranger.” (Exodus 22:20) The commandment to treat aliens kindly, justly, lovingly occurs at least 36 times in the Torah — more than any other mitzvah.
Antisemitism
The Gestapo, the Storm Troopers and ICE
It is important to try to draw lessons from our collective past, but historical comparisons are tricky things.
March 2, 2026
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Justice
We Are Targets, Too: Two Days in Minneapolis
We witnessed the astonishing goodness of the force of ordinary human neighbors, rising up in defense of decency, pluralism and democracy.
March 1, 2026
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Justice
Minneapolis: Cultivating a Resistance, Both Tender and Fierce
Everyone was caring for everyone in a stunning collective experience of loving our neighbor as ourselves.
March 1, 2026
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Justice
Hold Them Accountable: Supporting ICE Victims in Your Own Community
We should not ignore what is happening in our own backyards.
February 9, 2026
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Justice
America in the World War I Era and Beyond: The Tribal Teens and the Tribal Twenties
The current anti-immigration crusade mirrors the rhetoric and actions of the last anti-immigration movement 100-plus years ago.
February 9, 2026
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Justice
How to Welcome the Stranger
Torah admonishes us (36 times!) to love the immigrant as the Holy One does.
February 9, 2026
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We are living through a truly tragic time. I am too old to move to Lisbon. My Polish Zeda came here in the early 1900s, and I feel his strength and that of my deceased parents to endure. I have also very much admired Rabbi Staub’s words in the past. Finally, we Jews are creatures of history, as are all human beings. All that being said, I must respectfully disagree with the assertion that ICE is not the Gestapo. There is a very simple historical rule: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, it must be a duck. ice is the Gestapo for our times.And we being are led by a passel of very dangerous fools. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest, Rabbi David, Hartley, Mark.