Resources

Chanukah menorah with roots and flowering vines

Beyond the restful, holiday-less month of Chesvan, look ahead to Chanukah resources, and explore other festival-related material below.

Stay in touch for new materials and opportunities to contribute your own content.


"Zeh hayom asah Adonai: This is the day the Creator made" -- Psalm 118:24. stick figure of sun above quote.

Zeh Hayom is a new monthly publication of Matir Asurim: Jewish Care Network for Incarcerated People. Materials are distributed to inside readers by postal mail on a monthly schedule and available to read and share from this website. Learn more and download.


18 monthly publications, Divrei Matir Asurim, with resources on Matir Asurim as an organization, Torah and other sacred text, prayer and more. (See also Zeh Hayom, a newer monthly publication.)

two open scrolls, one (left) shows the beginning of the Torah, "Breishit bara elohim / In the beginning, God created," with the first letter, bet, highlighted and the letters reish-aleph-shin -- the word "rosh"; the other (right) shows the end of the Torah, "l'einei kol yisrael / in the sight of all Israel," with the last letter, lamed, highlighted and the letters sin-reish-aleph -- the same letters in "rosh." Below this, is a heart with the letters lamed-bet.

Many of our materials were created specifically with inside readers in mind. Matir Asurim also provides materials to share with outside readers, with issue background, advocacy resources, a recent author talk, and related blog updates. See links below.


Holiday resources

Below you can read and/or download holiday-related resources. Please consider making a donation to support our work ($18 suggested) if making use of these materials! If you know someone on the inside who would benefit from receiving these kinds of resources, you can sign them on onto our list here.

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TWO-PAGE SPREADS
SINGLE-PAGE, printer-friendly version
Tisha B’Av Mailer 5783
Pesach Mailing 5783
Tu B’Shvat Mailing 5783
Hanukkah Mailing 5783
Sukkot Mailer 5783
High Holidays Mailer 5783
Tisha B’Av Mailer 5782
Shavuot Mailer 5782

Advocacy and Issue Materials

Carceral Systems and Freeman’s Challenge: Author discussion

Learning and Action for Passover and Beyond

Teshuva and the story of Joseph and Judah

See also “Advocacy” category on our blog