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This Passover, We Stand with People Seeking Asylum
23 March 2018Next week Passover will start. Many of us will sit down at Seders and retell the story of our Exodus from Egypt. We will see ourselves as individuals who escaped bondage. And we will look at the world around us and identify the ways in which others around us are not yet free.
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Countering the Deportations: In Court and In The Streets
21 March 2018
Some good news came out of Israel recently when it comes to people seeking asylum.
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Pushing for More Tolerant Jewish Spaces in Israel
12 May 2017
From kashrut, to marriage, to the place of LGBTQ Israelis, a quiet revolution is underway.
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Five Calls for Freedom in Israel this Passover
6 April 2017
Meet five individuals struggling to gain liberty in contemporary Israel.
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Bring NIF Values to Your Passover Seder
6 April 2017
Three rabbinical students taking part in an NIF Fellowship prepared these holiday cards.
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A Redemption Tale for Some, but Not for All
6 May 2016It was only two weeks ago that many people in Israel and America sat around their table celebrating Passover, a holiday that commemorates our redemption as a Jewish people. “For you were a stranger in the land of Egypt”- an illustrious tractate that was uttered in many households- which we say to remind us as a community about the oppressive treatment we experienced as slaves in Egypt and our call to extend kindness to the other.
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Freedom Project: Israeli Artists Portray Freedom for Passover
8 April 2015
Israeli artists have teamed up with NIF Israel for the “Freedom Project” this Passover.
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The Laws of Moses and Israel, Without the Rabbinate
1 May 2014It wasn’t by chance that the concepts of freedom at Passover and a couple’s ability to realize their love in traditional Jewish culture have become connected to the struggle for human rights in western culture.
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Passover’s Deep Meaning
10 April 2014As Passover approaches my wish for all of us is that we will learn the lesson of the Haggadah in its deepest meaning, not only in order to remember the past, but also in order to shape the future.
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2014 Seder Supplement
3 April 2014
Israel is currently home to roughly 53,000 people who have fled violence and persecution in East Africa. Tell their story at your Seder.
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