Pursuing Justice

As members of local and global Jewish communities, we bear responsibility for pursuing justice and equality for all the citizens of the world. We can all give tzedakah and a little time, while some of us have the capacity to do much more. We make the world better when we fight for justice from a place of humility and love, not rage. These rituals and prayers infuse that work with a sense of holiness and perspective to help us do just that.

Eco-Kashrut Prayer

Shared by Cori Mancuso | Prayer

A kavannah before eating to strive to make just choices [more]

Found In: Pursuing Justice, Blessings for Food

Tags: eco-friendly

A Thanksgiving Adaptation

Interfaith Worker Justice | Prayer

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Found In: Pursuing Justice, Thanksgiving, Blessings for Food

Tags: birkat hamazon

Ethical Consumption Kavannah

Shared by Dasi Fruchter, Director of Tav/Food Justice Community Engagement, Uri L'Tzedek | Prayer

To be recited upon eating food produced with special sensitivity to workers in the Food Industry [more]

Found In: Pursuing Justice, Blessings for Food

Hoshanot-Prayers for Redemption

Rabbi Ezra Weinberg | Prayer

Hoshanot, written in an acrostic, based upon the first official statemtent from Occupy Wall Street [more]

Found In: Pursuing Justice, Sukkot

A Bride's Prayer on Behalf of Agunot

Prayer

There is a folk tradition that the gates of heaven are particularly open to the prayers of the bride and groom. In some communities, wedding couples are handed small pieces of paper prior to the processional on which personal prayers are written. They read these prayers as they walk down the aisle and while circling one another. This prayer is offered in that tradition. [more]