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An Open Letter from 275 Rabbis and Cantors to Secure Community Network CEO Michael Masters
January 30, 2025
We need you to continue doing your crucial work to help keep Jewish communities safe. Perpetuating fear of immigrants and promoting the corrosion of the rule of law undermines this mission.
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Rabbis Respond to Trump Administration Executive Order on Antisemitism
January 30, 2025
WASHINGTON – After President Trump issued a new executive order on antisemitism late Wednesday, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, an organization that mobilizes 2,300 rabbis and cantors nationally, responded with concern that the executive order uses opposing antisemitism as a smokescreen for cracking down on immigrants, stifling freedom of speech on college campuses,...
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Rabbis Condemn President’s Executive Orders on Immigration
January 23, 2025
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights condemned President Trump’s day-one executive orders on immigration, which promote his racist, xenophobic agenda by targeting and demonizing immigrants. The rabbinic human rights group denounced these executive orders as antithetical to democratic values and Jewish ethical teachings. Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah, said: “As we had anticipated,...
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A letter from Rabbi Jill Jacobs on the inauguration of Donald Trump
January 20, 2025
Dear T’ruah Community, By the time we reach this week’s Torah reading, the Israelites have been enslaved for generations. Children are born into slavery to parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents who have never known freedom. No wonder the people have little appetite for Moses’ lofty promises of liberation. “They would not listen to Moses, out of kotzer...
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Rabbis Welcome Hostage Agreement; Urge Final Agreement to Bring Home Remaining Hostages, End War
January 15, 2025
WASHINGTON – On January 15, Israel and Hamas agreed to an initial hostage agreement that will free 33 hostages, primarily women, children, elderly, and wounded Israelis, as well as hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, and allow Palestinians to return to Northern Gaza. T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights — an organization that...
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Rabbis Urge Senate to Vote No on Anti-Immigrant Laken Riley Act
January 14, 2025
WASHINGTON – On January 7, The House passed H.R. 29, the Laken Riley Act, which would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain any undocumented migrant accused, charged, or convicted of burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. As the legislation passed to the Senate, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights — an organization...
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Rabbis Urge House Members to Block H.R. 9495
November 19, 2024
T'ruah urges members to vote against the bill, which the organization argued would make it too easy for President-elect Trump to target non-profit organizations.
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Rabbis Call on U.S. to Stop Transfer of Offensive Weapons to Israel
November 15, 2024
U.S. military aid, funded by American taxpayers, must be used in compliance with U.S. law, international humanitarian law, and the laws of armed conflict.
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Joint Statement on Stand Together Event
November 8, 2024
This is a critical moment in history for Jewish unity. But unity should not be misconstrued as uniformity.
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U.S. Rabbis React to Re-Election of President Trump
November 6, 2024
Yesterday, the politics of fear, misogyny, racism, and xenophobia scored a victory.