Topic Tags: justice

“I vote for hope / I vote for freedom And peace / I vote for the earth And the world / I vote for my neighbors…”

“Never actually reaching my heavenly destinations of holiness and righteousness, but striving all the way.”

“In covenant I heed tzedek’s demand: / That justice cannot mend what is unhealed…”

“Hineni – struggling to envision even  a “fragile peace” with true justice for all peoples…”

“a gift from ancestors who belonged from the outside / who left destroyed shtetls in Russia, in Poland…”

“I want to tell you that I never knew they hated us this much, still! Today is the 250th anniversary of America / I want to know when you knew it was time to leave Russia…”

“Some other night, we will call for courage. This night: The boat safely moored / at the shadowed dock. Sweet dreams.”

“May we deliver ourselves into the treasured Holy Era of supreme acceptance –”

“I did not speak out because my voice was trembling too much…”

“May we be worthy of the freedoms entrusted to us.”