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Antisemitism & Racism – An Interview with Rabbi Jonah Pesner
October 7th, 2024
Global Health Philanthropy and Jewish Values – An Interview with Rabbi Erica & Mark Gerson
September 27th, 2024
MindBodyTorah – An Interview with Rabbi Aryeh Ronay
September 19th, 2024
“Work, Workers, Workers’ Rights, and Unions” — A Joint Jewish Labor Committee & Uri L’Tzedek Event!
September 16th, 2024
A Conversation between Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz!
September 5th, 2024
Election Season! What’s Our Role to Protect Democracy?
With Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner September 3rd, 2024
The Social Justice Vision of the Book of Devarim (Deuteronomy)
With Rav Nati Helfgot August 19, 2024
Stigma in the Jewish Community- What’s the big secret about addiction?
With Chaim Tureff August 5, 2024
Should we publicly advocate that Hasidic children receive a secular education?
With Beatrice Weber July 29, 2024
Pursuing Justice Even When it’s Hard: Overcoming Racism and Antisemitism
With Rabbi Jonah Pesner July 23, 2024
Was Avraham right to listen to God? ‘Yirat Elokim’ – Fearing God as the Development of a Moral Conscience
With Dr. Tanya White July 15, 2024
Mental Health in the Jewish Community – A Panel with Uri L’Tzedek
With Marc Fein, Michelle Friedman, Ben Litchman, and Gabriela Lupatkin June 20,2024
Mind Your Own Business? Balancing Communal Responsibility and Personal Autonomy
With Avi Narrow-Tolinsky May 31, 2024
Celebrating 15 of uplifting Kashrut and Worker rights with the Tav Hayosher!
With Uri L’Tzedek Staff and board
Education as a tactic to fight antisemitism in progressive spaces.
With Randy Fried.
Did Anti-Semitism Begin with the Story of Purim?
With Rabba Sara Hurwitz
“Public Shaming” (The Deposing of Rabban Gamliel)
With Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe
Uri L’Tzedek Panel – Mandate to love and protect the stranger
With featured panelist – Victor Pate – Co Director of the HALTsolitary confinement coalition, Darren Mack – Co Director at Freedom Agenda, Moderated by Program Manager with Uri L’Tzedek Emma Goldblatt.
Organizing the Jewish community to protect Democracy!
With Executive Director of a More Perfect Union Aaron Dorfman
Uri L’Tzedek Panel – Mandate to love and protect the stranger
With Rebecca Kirzner, Senior Director of Grassroots Advocacy at HIAS, Charlie Davidson, Co-Chair at Synagogue Coalition on the Immigration Crisis,Eddie Chavez Calderon, Campaign Director of Uri L’Tzedek, and Eli Weinbach, Rabbinical intern with Uri L’Tzedek.
Resilience & Volunteering in Israel post Oct. 7th with Dana Yahel Talmi, Executive Director of Yahel
With Dana Yahel Talmi, Executive Director of Yahel.
Doing Well While Doing Good: Socially Responsible Investing and Talmudic Wisdom
With Rabbi Jacob Siegel
The Imperative and Complexity of Ransoming Captives
With Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy.
A worker can withdraw at any point: Laws protecting labor freedom
With Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Finkleman
Collective allyship during hard times
With Angela Hughey
Neither Pro-Choice Nor Pro-Life: Abortion in Jewish Law
With Rabbi Sarah Mulhern
Finding grounding and identity in progressive spaces.
With David Kaufman
The Measure of Sedom: Capitalism, Socialism, and Barbarism
With Rabbi Will Friedman
Farm workers in the US essential yet exploited.
UFW Chief Executive Officer Diana Tellefson Torres
Zealotry: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Rabbi Zach Truboff
The People That Dwell Alone – Loneliness and Ethical Conduct
Rabbi Menashe East
Water Access: A Halakhic Argument
Rabbi David Polsky
What does loving the stranger truly mean?
Migrant Justice activist Eddie Chavez Calderon
Is changing Australia’s constitution a Jewish value
Rabbanit Nomi Kaltmann
Walking towards a more tolerable society
Dee Senae
Exploring The Diaspora Jewish community of Latin America
Dr. Analucia Lopezrevoredo
A CLASS in FRANCE: Ethical Consumption in the 21st Century
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Exploring Halacha on Living Kidney Donation
Rabbi Jason Weiner
Jews and Humanity: Evolution of a Conversation
Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein
The Jewish Jail Lady And The Holy Thief
Mark Borovitz and Harriet Rossetto
The Mussar Masters On Our Obligation To Redress Intergenerational Pain and Cultural Hurt
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Social Kashrut in Law
Shayna Abramson
Can Factory Farmed Dairy Actually Be Kosher?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Values and Reality: The Politics of Social Justice with Rabbi Jason Herman
Rabbi Jason Herman
The Primacy of Morality over Ritual in the Prophets Jeremiah Unterman
Rabbi Jeremiah Unterman
Tza’ar Ba’alei Chaim- The Prohibition against Causing Pain to Animals: What is it’s scope and how should it apply in an era of Factory Farming?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Jewish Exclusivity: Were Zrubavel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Raban Gamliel wise to keep the Jews separate in our religious practice
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Hidden Wrongs: Uncovering Injustices Built Into Our Community with Sam Fleischacker
Sam Fleischacker
Sacrifice, Cravings, and Bloodshed: Does Torah Allow City Dwellers to Eat Animals?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Israeli Veganism, American Jewish Veganism, & the Connections!
Omri Paz of Vegan Friendly
Rav Kook’s Universal Torah Light
Rabbi Itzcahk Evan-Shayish
Chanukah and the Ethics of Remembering Our History
Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn
Social Justice Issues Related To Organ Donation
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow
Unequal Resources And Sharing Property
Rabbi Aviva Richman
Is Lab Created Meat Kosher?
Rabbi Dina Najman
Interfaith Panel On The Death Penalty
Rabbi Shmuly, Sam Heath, Cece Jones Davis, Stacy Rector and Cantor Michael Zoosman
And if not now, then when? Everyday Life Social Justice.
Rabba Dr. Mira Neshama Weil
Animal Welfare, Environment, Food Justice, Health and Human Rights
Uri L’Tzedek, Shamayim and Factory Farming Awareness Coalition.
Caring For Workers, Animals & Our Environment: A Torah Revolution
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Jonah Goldman, Emma Goldblatt & Eddie Chavez Calderon
Parasha Ki Tavo: Deja Vu or a template for preparing for Teshuva for the High Holidays?
Rabbi Marianna Novak
Shmita: Then and Now
Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi
Is Pluralism a Punishment?
Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior
Maimonide’s Tzedakah vs. Paul’s Charity – Two Narratives of Giving, Two Religious Worldviews
Noam Zion
The Three Weeks: Old Mourning vs. New Mourning
Rabbanit Bracha Jaffę
The Book of Job as the Guide for Jewish Ethics
Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Get Abuse: The Problem and The Solutions
Rabbi Barry Dolinger
A Conversation with Ruth Messinger on Voting Rights
Ruth Messinger and Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Is changing Australia’s constitution a Jewish value
Rabbanit Nomi Kaltmann
Walking towards a more tolerable society
Dee Senae
Exploring The Diaspora Jewish community of Latin America
Dr. Analucia Lopezrevoredo
A CLASS in FRANCE: Ethical Consumption in the 21st Century
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Exploring Halacha on Living Kidney Donation
Rabbi Jason Weiner
Jews and Humanity: Evolution of a Conversation
Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein
The Jewish Jail Lady And The Holy Thief
Mark Borovitz and Harriet Rossetto
The Mussar Masters On Our Obligation To Redress Intergenerational Pain and Cultural Hurt
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Social Kashrut in Law
Shayna Abramson
Can Factory Farmed Dairy Actually Be Kosher?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Values and Reality: The Politics of Social Justice with Rabbi Jason Herman
Rabbi Jason Herman
The Primacy of Morality over Ritual in the Prophets Jeremiah Unterman
Rabbi Jeremiah Unterman
Tza’ar Ba’alei Chaim- The Prohibition against Causing Pain to Animals: What is it’s scope and how should it apply in an era of Factory Farming?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Jewish Exclusivity: Were Zrubavel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Raban Gamliel wise to keep the Jews separate in our religious practice
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Hidden Wrongs: Uncovering Injustices Built Into Our Community with Sam Fleischacker
Sam Fleischacker
Sacrifice, Cravings, and Bloodshed: Does Torah Allow City Dwellers to Eat Animals?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Israeli Veganism, American Jewish Veganism, & the Connections!
Omri Paz of Vegan Friendly
Rav Kook’s Universal Torah Light
Rabbi Itzcahk Evan-Shayish
Chanukah and the Ethics of Remembering Our History
Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn
Social Justice Issues Related To Organ Donation
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow
Unequal Resources And Sharing Property
Rabbi Aviva Richman
Is Lab Created Meat Kosher?
Rabbi Dina Najman
Interfaith Panel On The Death Penalty
Rabbi Shmuly, Sam Heath, Cece Jones Davis, Stacy Rector and Cantor Michael Zoosman
And if not now, then when? Everyday Life Social Justice.
Rabba Dr. Mira Neshama Weil
Animal Welfare, Environment, Food Justice, Health and Human Rights
Uri L’Tzedek, Shamayim and Factory Farming Awareness Coalition.
Caring For Workers, Animals & Our Environment: A Torah Revolution
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Jonah Goldman, Emma Goldblatt & Eddie Chavez Calderon
Parasha Ki Tavo: Deja Vu or a template for preparing for Teshuva for the High Holidays?
Rabbi Marianna Novak
Shmita: Then and Now
Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi
Is Pluralism a Punishment?
Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior
Maimonide’s Tzedakah vs. Paul’s Charity – Two Narratives of Giving, Two Religious Worldviews
Noam Zion
The Three Weeks: Old Mourning vs. New Mourning
Rabbanit Bracha Jaffę
The Book of Job as the Guide for Jewish Ethics
Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Get Abuse: The Problem and The Solutions
Rabbi Barry Dolinger
A Conversation with Ruth Messinger on Voting Rights
Ruth Messinger and Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
A CLASS in FRANCE: Ethical Consumption in the 21st Century
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Exploring Halacha on Living Kidney Donation
Rabbi Jason Weiner
Jews and Humanity: Evolution of a Conversation
Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein
The Jewish Jail Lady And The Holy Thief
Mark Borovitz and Harriet Rossetto
The Mussar Masters On Our Obligation To Redress Intergenerational Pain and Cultural Hurt
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Social Kashrut in Law
Shayna Abramson
Can Factory Farmed Dairy Actually Be Kosher?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Values and Reality: The Politics of Social Justice with Rabbi Jason Herman
Rabbi Jason Herman
The Primacy of Morality over Ritual in the Prophets Jeremiah Unterman
Rabbi Jeremiah Unterman
Tza’ar Ba’alei Chaim- The Prohibition against Causing Pain to Animals: What is it’s scope and how should it apply in an era of Factory Farming?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Jewish Exclusivity: Were Zrubavel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Raban Gamliel wise to keep the Jews separate in our religious practice
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Hidden Wrongs: Uncovering Injustices Built Into Our Community with Sam Fleischacker
Sam Fleischacker
Sacrifice, Cravings, and Bloodshed: Does Torah Allow City Dwellers to Eat Animals?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Israeli Veganism, American Jewish Veganism, & the Connections!
Omri Paz of Vegan Friendly
Rav Kook’s Universal Torah Light
Rabbi Itzcahk Evan-Shayish
Chanukah and the Ethics of Remembering Our History
Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn
Social Justice Issues Related To Organ Donation
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow
Unequal Resources And Sharing Property
Rabbi Aviva Richman
Is Lab Created Meat Kosher?
Rabbi Dina Najman
Interfaith Panel On The Death Penalty
Rabbi Shmuly, Sam Heath, Cece Jones Davis, Stacy Rector and Cantor Michael Zoosman
And if not now, then when? Everyday Life Social Justice.
Rabba Dr. Mira Neshama Weil
Animal Welfare, Environment, Food Justice, Health and Human Rights
Uri L’Tzedek, Shamayim and Factory Farming Awareness Coalition.
Caring For Workers, Animals & Our Environment: A Torah Revolution
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Jonah Goldman, Emma Goldblatt & Eddie Chavez Calderon
Parasha Ki Tavo: Deja Vu or a template for preparing for Teshuva for the High Holidays?
Rabbi Marianna Novak
Shmita: Then and Now
Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi
Is Pluralism a Punishment?
Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior
Maimonide’s Tzedakah vs. Paul’s Charity – Two Narratives of Giving, Two Religious Worldviews
Noam Zion
The Three Weeks: Old Mourning vs. New Mourning
Rabbanit Bracha Jaffę
The Book of Job as the Guide for Jewish Ethics
Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Get Abuse: The Problem and The Solutions
Rabbi Barry Dolinger
A Conversation with Ruth Messinger on Voting Rights
Ruth Messinger and Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Exploring Halacha on Living Kidney Donation
Rabbi Jason Weiner
Jews and Humanity: Evolution of a Conversation
Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein
The Jewish Jail Lady And The Holy Thief
Mark Borovitz and Harriet Rossetto
The Mussar Masters On Our Obligation To Redress Intergenerational Pain and Cultural Hurt
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Social Kashrut in Law
Shayna Abramson
Can Factory Farmed Dairy Actually Be Kosher?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Values and Reality: The Politics of Social Justice with Rabbi Jason Herman
Rabbi Jason Herman
The Primacy of Morality over Ritual in the Prophets Jeremiah Unterman
Rabbi Jeremiah Unterman
Tza’ar Ba’alei Chaim- The Prohibition against Causing Pain to Animals: What is it’s scope and how should it apply in an era of Factory Farming?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Jewish Exclusivity: Were Zrubavel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Raban Gamliel wise to keep the Jews separate in our religious practice
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Hidden Wrongs: Uncovering Injustices Built Into Our Community with Sam Fleischacker
Sam Fleischacker
Sacrifice, Cravings, and Bloodshed: Does Torah Allow City Dwellers to Eat Animals?
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Israeli Veganism, American Jewish Veganism, & the Connections!
Omri Paz of Vegan Friendly
Rav Kook’s Universal Torah Light
Rabbi Itzcahk Evan-Shayish
Chanukah and the Ethics of Remembering Our History
Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn
Social Justice Issues Related To Organ Donation
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow
Unequal Resources And Sharing Property
Rabbi Aviva Richman
Is Lab Created Meat Kosher?
Rabbi Dina Najman
Interfaith Panel On The Death Penalty
Rabbi Shmuly, Sam Heath, Cece Jones Davis, Stacy Rector and Cantor Michael Zoosman
And if not now, then when? Everyday Life Social Justice.
Rabba Dr. Mira Neshama Weil
Animal Welfare, Environment, Food Justice, Health and Human Rights
Uri L’Tzedek, Shamayim and Factory Farming Awareness Coalition.
Caring For Workers, Animals & Our Environment: A Torah Revolution
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Jonah Goldman, Emma Goldblatt & Eddie Chavez Calderon
Parasha Ki Tavo: Deja Vu or a template for preparing for Teshuva for the High Holidays?
Rabbi Marianna Novak
Shmita: Then and Now
Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi
Is Pluralism a Punishment?
Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior
Maimonide’s Tzedakah vs. Paul’s Charity – Two Narratives of Giving, Two Religious Worldviews
Noam Zion
The Three Weeks: Old Mourning vs. New Mourning
Rabbanit Bracha Jaffę
The Book of Job as the Guide for Jewish Ethics
Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Get Abuse: The Problem and The Solutions
Rabbi Barry Dolinger
A Conversation with Ruth Messinger on Voting Rights
Ruth Messinger and Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Introduction to Transitional Justice: From Theory to Practice
Dr. Rav Alexandra (Eliora) Peretz
1619, 1654, 2022: Jews, Race, & U.S. History
Dr. Marc Dollinger
Gender Identities in Jewish Texts
Rabbi Avi Spodek
The Justice Jedi Journey: Becoming a More Rugged and Sensitive World Changer
Rabbi Pesach Stadlin
Shemitah and Shared Ownership: Torah in the Public Domain
Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld
You Shall Not Oppress the Ger: To Whom Does This Apply?
Professor Zvi Zohar
Tzedaka: Negotiating Civic Order and Social Justice
Rabbanit Dr. Hannah Hashkes
Darkhei Shalom: The Path to Building Community
Rabbi Rahel Berkovits
Child Sexual Abuse in the Global Jewish Community
Manny Waks
The Sephardic Quest for Halakhic Social Justice
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
Tzedek Without Mishpat?
Rabba Sara Hurwitz
The Torah of Trauma
Rabbi Zach Truboff
A Jewish Approach to Climate Change
Rabbi Yonatan Neril
Respecting The Elderly
Rabbanit Sharona Halikman
Reading Intolerant Texts in a Tolerant Society
Rabbi Norman Solomon
How the Talmud Understands “Tikkun Olam”
Rabbi Devin Maimon Villarreal
The Shemitta Year & Jewish Justice
Rabbi Leah Shakdiel
The Messianic Idea
Rabbi Avi Orlow
You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right
Rabbi Uri Topolosky
How Can We Teach Character in Our Modern Orthodox Communities?
Rabbi Anthony Knopf
A Judaic Critique of Neo-Liberal Globalization
Rabbi Micha Odenheimer
Halachic Decision-Making in Modern Times
Rabbi Avi Herzog
How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Capitalism
Professor David Weitzner
Rohingya Victims of Genocide
Rabbi Ari Hart
Voter Suppression, Raising the Minimum, Wage & Spiritual Resilience
Rev. William J. Barber, II
Jewish Values and Social Justice
Rabbi Nissan Antine
Your History, Your Narrative: Community Organizing Through Story & Art
Harry Barajas
How Can Our Society Move From “I” to “We?”
Professor Robert D. Putnam
Police Accountability
Rabbi David Polsky
Fixing Our Broken Parole System
Donna Hylton and Zachary Katznelson
Native American & Jewish Dialogue: Music as the Vehicle for Cultural Retention
Uriah McCarthy
Police Brutality & Torah
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
Mussar & Torah-Rooted Justice Work
Rabbi Dr. Mel Gottlieb
Welcoming the Stranger & the International Rescue Committee
Beth Strano
Best Anti-Racism Practices
Ilana Kaufman
Can a Just Society Have the Death Penalty?
Abraham J. Bonowitz
Amplifying the Voices of Farm Workers
Irv Hershenbaum
Native American & Jewish Dialogue: Poems & Faith
Sareya Taylor
Leaning Into Uncomfortable Conversations: Orthodox Allyship in Racial Justice
Nate Looney
A Historian’s Perspective on Judaism and Social Justice
Dr. Laura Shaw Frank
Sensible Ethics: Exploring Basic Medical Protocol During the Pandemic
Dr. Amish Shah
Understanding White Supremacy & Extremism in America Today
Aryeh Tuchman (ADL)
Wages & Worker Rights
Jack Newhouse
Native American & Jewish Dialogue: What Do Tradition and Ritual Mean to Me?
Debbie Nez-Manuel
Human Love as a Reflection of Divine Love That Can Help Channel Human Ethics
Rabbi Dr. Shai Held
How to Create a Welcoming Space for Jews of Color at Jewish Events
Jordan Daniels
Native American & Jewish Dialogue: How Hope & Resiliency Keep Our People Going
Rosetta Walker
Police Accountability & Faith Leadership
Umar Hakim
Ethics and How Today’s Young Jewish Adults Can Help Better the World
Dr. Aaron Koller
Tears are a Sign of the Soul Sweating (Rosh Hashanah)
Rabbi Lawrence Zierler
What is the Jewish Response to Hunger and Poverty?
Hannah Weilbacher (AJWS) & Josh Protas (MAZON)
Prison Reform: Torah & Tales From a Prison Chaplain
Rabbi Gabriel Kretzmer Seed
Jewish and Multi-Racial Identity, and the Need for Social Equity
Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein
Implications of the Divine Image
Rabbi David Rosen
Ethical Matters: Going Beyond the Letter of the Law
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen
The Moral Needs of the World and How We Can Meet Them
Professor Moshe Halbertal
How Can We Be Better Allies to the Black Community?
Ginna Green
Addressing Atrocities Against the Uighurs. What Can We Do?
Ann Strimov Durbin (Jewish World Watch) & Rachel Kahn-Troster (T’ruah)
The Jewish and Human Imperative to Work for Social Justice
Ruth Messinger
What the Jewish People Can Do For Climate Justice
Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith
Chassidic Ideas, Interreligious Dialogue, Race Relations and More
Rav Herzl Hefter
Why Was Moshe Rabbeinu Chosen to be Israel’s Leader
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow
Celebrating Jewish-Latinx Dialogue
Dr. Analucía Lopezrevoredo (Jewtina y Co)
LGBTQ Activism in the Orthodox Jewish Community
Rabbi Steve Greenberg
Orthodox Judaism and Social Justice
Rabbi Dr. Marc Angel
The Halachic Imperative to Embrace Human Diversity
Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Creating Social Justice Opportunities
Rabbi Yair Silverman
Unity & Uniformity in the Observant Israeli World
Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
The Rights of the Marginalized and Oppressed
Attorney Steve Lieberman
Environmentalism & the Climate Crisis
Nigel Savage (Hazon)
Disability Rights
Professor Arlene Kanter