Responding To The Crisis in Israel and Gaza – IKAR

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“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.” –Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, “On Prayer”

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Responding To The Crisis in Israel and Gaza

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Remembering and Rebuilding Kfar Azza

We heard from residents of Kibbutz Kfar Azza—about what they experienced that day and in the following weeks, about their efforts to rebuild, and about what we, as a Jewish community, can do to support them

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On Israel

We view connection to Israel as an integral part of a rich Jewish identity. We are dedicated to supporting Israel as a thriving Jewish and democratic state, a spiritual heartland and homeland for the Jewish people as well as a source of cultural, intellectual and religious inspiration. Click here to read more.

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