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Yitro: All-night Revelation

Jacob is with IfNotNow NYC.

Yitro, this week’s parsha, marks the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. This moment, along with the liberation from slavery, is the most fundamental in Judaism. It is also the basis for modern festivals of Shavuot…


Parashat Vayera: What does it mean to be present

Jen is with IfNotNow Philly.

While there is a lot — a lot — to discuss in parshat Vayeira, the two pieces I want to focus on are the stories of S’dom and Amorah (Sodom and Gomorrah) and akedat Yitzhak (the binding of…


Noah: Olam Chesed Yibaneh

Jacob is with IfNotNow NYC.

Last Friday, IfNotNow NYC members gathered before Shabbat, outside the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, singing Rabbi Menachem Creditor’s Olam Chesed Yibaneh, written in the shadow of September 11th, and translated to English as “We…


Ki Tavo: Tochachot and White Supremacy

Ayelet Wachs-Cashman is with IfNotNow NYC.

This is a uniquely special Shabbat for me. Not only have I completed a ten-day, 118 mile march from Charlottesville to Washington D.C., but it it also the thirteenth anniversary of my bat…


Ki Tetzei: Shooing away cruelty

Rebecca is with IfNotNow Boston.

In this week’s Torah portion, Ki Tetzei, Moses continues to recount laws to the Israelites. We hear 74 of the Torah’s 613 commandments. Some feel practical: “When you build a new house, you shall make a guard rail…


Shoftim: Pursuing Justice Justly

Rabbi Lizz is a member of IfNotNow D.C., and co-wrote this d’var Torah with Mira Shoshana of IfNotNow Toronto.

In this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Shoftim, we read the famous line, “Justice, Justice shall you pursue, that you may live and…


Eikev: Chosenness and Choosing

Rabbi Lizz is with IfNotNow DC.

This week’s Torah portion deals in the question of Chosenness. Moses tells the people of the Israelite camp that if they obey all the commandments, then God will love them and bless them above all the other peoples of…