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Weekly Parsha Study with Rabbi David Kasher from 5.2.2024.
Full unedited class: https://youtu.be/O-gaUHURJBA
Source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/562111?lang=bi

With Auschwitz Survivor Ella Mandel and Amit, Zeve, and Oren
Zilberstein, Jason Neidleman, and Alexia Gyorody, the second, third, and
fourth generation of family members who both survived and perished in
the Shoah. As living survivor numbers dwindle, we will explore together
how we can understand and hold their experiences in ways that co-create a
more just, humane and dignified future for one another and our world.
Co-produced by Peanut Productions.

Videos by The Righteous Conversations Project:
- To Life: The Ella Mandel Story created in collaboration with Sinai
Akiba
- Dreams of Yisrael: The Story of Yisrael Zilberstein created in
collaboration with IKAR Limudim

We must have zero tolerance for violent and racist rhetoric in our Jewish community. We must support the birth of a new mixed multitude: those who reject extremism, who reject the violent, reductive idea that Palestinians and Jews must be eternal enemies. That one’s victory necessitates another’s victimhood, or even worse: elimination. This mixed multitude is made of people who know that we do not undermine our own sorrow or betray our own people when we see one another, those who understand that our fates are all tied up in one another.

The protest movement has unleashed a virulent and dangerous antisemitism that endangers Jews, threatens democracy, and undermines the fight for justice and liberation for Palestinians. We must do better. What we need is a movement fueled by empathy and moral imagination. One that recognizes that both peoples have suffered terribly. That neither is leaving. That a just future is possible for everyone.

Source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/558262?lang=bi

The free person, awake and humble, can acknowledge the
truth that emerges from various even contradictory perspectives. This is not a
sign of weakness, but of spiritual liberation. Perhaps that the very essence of
freedom is growing in spaciousness.