Compassion vs. Justice
Bonnie Koppell Rabbi Amy Eilberg poignantly articulates the visceral Jewish response to the Arizona law, AZ SB 1070, when she writes that, “My heart tells me there is only one authentically Jewish...
View ArticleMorally Offensive Enforcement Schemes
Robert Rubin Jews support progressive immigration policies, but not just because we are admonished in Leviticus and Exodus to respect the stranger. Yes, as Rabbi Bonnie Koppell argued recently on this...
View ArticleThe Right to Be Israeli: Race in Israel
Karen Paul-Stern The Ethiopian aliyah to Israel that began nearly 20 years ago has posed ethical problems for Israel like no other immigration wave. With more than 100,000 Ethiopians living in Israel...
View ArticleBecause We Are Jews
Gideon Aronoff The results of the November elections did little to further the hope that comprehensive immigration reform is a realistic goal for the immediate future. For much of the 20th and all of...
View ArticleIndividual Rights and Collective Responsibilities
Rachel B. Tiven On Saturday, December 18, 2010, Jews in synagogue read Parashat Vayechi, while in the U.S. Senate, the Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors Act — the DREAM Act — went down...
View ArticleDesecrating the Kitchen Table/Restoring Its Sanctity
Richard Litvak Oshek, to oppress the laborer, is forbidden by the Torah — as it is written: “Lo ta’ashok,” “You shall not oppress a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a...
View ArticleDoes Your Nanny Get a Lunch Break?
Jonathan D. Klein “Do not oppress a poor or destitute hired hand, whether from among your brothers or from among your strangers who are in your land, within your gates.” (Deuteronomy 24:14) Rashi...
View ArticleA Stranger Seeks Asylum
Jeff Goldman The United States Immigration and Nationality Act states that foreign nationals physically inside the United States are entitled to receive political asylum if they can establish that they...
View ArticleWhen Illegal Immigrants Are Jews
Douglas Hauer Over the course of this year’s Sh’ma conversation on the ethics of immigration — and in the larger national discussion — there is a reflexive assumption that the debate is primarily about...
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Here I am, Hineini
This sterling silver buckle (created by master silversmith Ľudovít Martonyik, Košice, Slovakia, using the “David” typeface by Itamar David) and kittel belt (sewn by Silvia Koperdáková, Košice) were...
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