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Today, I am listening for what this chapter has to teach us about healing from an ancient Jewish perspective, because I want to understand how we, as Jews, have learned to heal.

The texts with which we pray, I have come to believe, should serve as a verbal technology for spiritual connection, allowing us to enter into them with relative ease so that they can be used to encounter the divine. To alter the text of the liturgy is not to censor it, it is to refine its power as a tool of worship in a particular time and place. 

Looking at the mountains before us, I find that spiritual place I longed for on one of the highest of holy days. Reciting the Shema brings tears to my eyes.

Not only could women solve some of the most intractable problems around the globe, but that more attention – and funds – must be designated to make these efforts successful.

We wanted Jewish communities to demonstrate this solidarity with immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers on Tisha B’Av, a Jewish day of mourning. As we remembered the catastrophes that have befallen the Jewish people, we pointed to the current catastrophe of immigration policy unfolding before us.