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Rabbi Jill Jacobs: Israel Anti-Boycott Act is Wrong-Headed and Dangerous
December 20, 2018
Legislation that violates the First Amendment does nothing to help Israel, threatens Americans’ constitutional rights, and may even provoke a backlash against Israel and the American Jewish community.
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Joint Letter Condemning Efforts to Smear Airbnb for its West Bank Policy
December 5, 2018
To accuse Airbnb of anti-Semitism trivializes and distracts from fighting the rising tide of anti-Semitism, which is driven in the United States by the legitimization of white nationalism.
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T’ruah Horrified and Alarmed by Escalation of Violence on the Gaza-Israel Border
November 13, 2018
We mourn the human losses on both sides and call on both sides to do everything within their power to prevent a war that would solve nothing and result in more tragic losses for both Israelis and Palestinians.
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T’ruah Responds to Shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue
October 27, 2018
Tonight, we mourn with the members of Tree of Life Synagogue, Congregation Dor Hadash, New Light Congregation and the entire Jewish community of Pittsburgh. We are devastated and outraged at the horrific terrorist murder in this sacred space. Oh that my head were water and my eye a fountain of tears; so that I could...
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T’ruah Opposes ‘Public Charge’ Rule Targeting Low-Income Immigrants
October 10, 2018
T’ruah Executive Director Rabbi Jill Jacobs said, “As Jews, we will not be silent while this morally bankrupt administration tries to force families to choose feeding and housing their children and living together with them in safety. Our country is acting as another Sodom: A place that passes laws forbidding humane treatment of those seeking refuge here and where injustice masquerades as rule of law.”
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T’ruah Joins ATEST, Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking
October 8, 2018
"T'ruah is thrilled to be invited to be a member of ATEST, our nation's premier coalition dedicated to supporting those vulnerable to trafficking,” said T’ruah Deputy Director Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster. “We are especially excited to be ATEST's first member directly representing the Jewish community, and we're looking forward to bringing the moral voices of our network of more than 2,000 rabbis and cantors to supporting critically needed federal legislation to prevent forced labor and support social services for survivors."
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Lowering U.S. Refugee Admissions to Record Low Is Unconscionable
September 18, 2018
We are dismayed and outraged that, amid a global refugee crisis, the Trump administration is turning its back on the world’s most vulnerable people and decreasing the United States’ refugee admissions rates to a record low. Responding to the administration’s Sept. 17 announcement that it will limit refugee admissions to 30,000 people in 2019, T’ruah...
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U.S. Moves Against Palestinians Put Both Israeli and Palestinian Lives at Risk
September 14, 2018
The Trump administration’s recent actions toward the Palestinians demonstrate an utter disregard for their human rights, a dangerous lack of understanding of the Middle East, and an irresponsible willingness to destroy the peace process and to put both Israeli and Palestinian lives at risk.
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T’ruah Condemns Israeli Arrest of Human Rights Leaders
August 31, 2018
Rather than harass Breaking the Silence, a nonviolent human rights organization, Israeli police should investigate the settlers who routinely carry out violent attacks both against Palestinians and Palestinian property, and against Israeli human rights leaders.
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T’ruah Files IRS Complaint Against U.S. Jewish Groups Sending Funds to Israeli Terrorist Orgs
August 30, 2018
The complaints -- against the Staten Island-based Jewish Heritage Movement, the Manhattan-based Central Fund of Israel, and the Skokie, Ill.,-based American Friends of Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi -- call on the Internal Revenue Service to revoke their tax-exempt status because the dollars raised benefit far-right Jewish terrorist groups in Israel.