**Big Announcement!** "Loud, Proud, and Jewish" is published!

**Big Announcement!**

"Loud, Proud, and Jewish" is published!

paperback link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0848W626Q

eBook link: https://www.amazon.com/Loud-Proud-Jewish-Menachem-Creditor-ebook/dp/B0848L9ZDG

With essays from a diverse group of Jewish leaders, "Loud, Proud, and Jewish" explores an unapologetic Jewish Pride that stands within and for - not against - the world, even in this moment of Jewish vulnerability and growing antisemitism. Read and be inspired! 

CONTENTS

9              Introduction

                Rabbi Menachem Creditor

13            Foreword: This is Our Moment

                Melanie Roth Gorelick

17            Raise up the Joy

                Rabbi Annie Tucker

26            My Mom Used to Say

                Ruth Zakarin

32            How We View Ourselves

                Rabbi Amitai Fraiman

37            Proudly Jewish and American

                Rabbi Rachel Ain

42            Seriously, Honestly, and Joyously

                Rabbi Jason Fruithandler

47            To Be Seen

                Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin

53            Jewish Advocacy: Privilege and Permission

                Rabbi Jack Moline

61            When Amtisemitism Becomes Us – and What We Must Do About It

                Rabbi David Evan Markus

81            Neither Silenced Nor Afraid

                Jonathan Fass

87            Privilege and Vulnerability after the Pittsburgh Shooting

                Sarah Rudolph

94            Shema

               Julia Knobloch

95            Olam Chesed Yibaneh: Building this World from Love

                Rabbi Claudia Kreiman

A Jewish Reflection on the Census

A Jewish Reflection on the Census

Rabbi Menachem Creditor

In Jewish terms, the act of counting residents is unambiguous: everyone matters.[1] Regarding the individual – citizen and resident alien alike – the Torah frames the governing power’s responsibility to count equally every person in its jurisdiction by invoking its opposite: Egyptian slavery.[2] Just as Jewish tradition outlines the responsibility of those in power to provide adequate food, rest, and justice[3], it also obligates residents who are not (yet) citizens to abide by the nation’s covenantal laws.[4] While the very category of ger (resident alien) indicates a legal distinction between citizens and non-citizens, there is no difference in the assertion of communal responsibility for both.[5] The poor, the widow and the orphan of society are to be represented with dignity. Judaism affirms that by counting everyone, we both distribute justice ethically in our midst and we structurally remind ourselves that everyone counts.

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[1] Ex. 22:20, 23:9; Lev. 19:33; Deut. 1:16, 10:18-19, 24:17, 19

[2] Lev. 19:34

[3] see Exod. 20:10, 23:12; Lev. 19:9-10; 23:22; Deut. 5:14, 24:19-22, for some examples.

[4] Lev 24:16-22; Deut. 29:10

[5] See Jeremiah 7:6; 22:3; Ezekiel 22:7, 29; Zechariah 7:10; Malachi 3:5 for some prophetic responses to injustice perpetrated against resident aliens.

This Friday Night (7:30pm) at Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester​!

Looking forward to teaching this Friday Night (7:30pm) with Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester​ during services, where I'll be delivering the Isaac Memorial Lecture during Social Justice Shabbat! 

https://www.congregationemanuel.org/event/sacred-stories-social-justice-shabbat-featuring-the-isaac-memorial-lecture-with-rabbi-menachem-creditor.html