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From Lament to Action: Closing Prayer for Tisha B'Av Vigil for Refugees, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers

By Rabbi Annie Lewis

Prayer to support refugees more

Tags: refugees, social justice, immigration

Rise Up Together: A Tisha b’Av Prayer for the Rohingya People

By Rabbi Tamara Cohen

A two-part prayer connecting the mourning of Tisha b'Av to Rohingya suffering today more

Tags: grief, mourning, refugees, rohingya

Against Detaining Children

By Alden Solovy

"The voice of heartbreak echoes across the land..." more

Tags: refugees, immigration, social justice, child abuse

Hashkiveinu for Refugee Children

By Kaya Stern-Kaufman

"Lay them down tonight in peace, all the children at the borders of our land..." more

Tags: refugees, peace, social justice, immigration, America

Batya

"How can we be like Batya / who heard the crying of an illegal migrant child..." more

Tags: Batya, nile, Moses, immigration, refugees, social justice

Hanukkah Candle Lighting Dedications for 2018/5779: Shining Light on the Darkness, Committing to Be the Light

By Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann

Hanukkah candle dedications for social justice in 2018 more

Tags: candle lighting, social justice, racial justice, rohingya, refugees, LGBTQ

Words of Intention for the Migrant Caravan

"when you read from broken tablets / i suppose everyone is a crack"

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Tags: refugees

Faith Leaders Bring Life-Saving Water to Migrants in the Desert

By Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari

Starting at sunrise beneath the brilliant waning moon, I ventured into the desert with 70 clergy and humanitarian aid facilitators. In each of them I saw a face of the Divine. more

Tags: immigration, social justice, refugees

For These Things I Weep: A Lament Delivered at ICE Offices

By Rabbi Tamara Cohen

A cry of lament delivered at ICE offices in protest of immigration policy more

Tags: lamentations, immigration, refugees, resistance

"Bitterly She Weeps In the Night": Voices of Exiles and Refugees, Past and Present

By Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann

Source sheet pairing verses from Eicha with voices of immigrant parents separated from their children more

Tags: immigration, refugees, lamentations, text study, trauma

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