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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.

• 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...

• 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.”

• 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."

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• T’ruah Stands with Charlottesville Community Against ‘Unite the Right’ Vision

  August 6, 2018

  We call on all elected officials to clearly and strongly denounce all forms of white supremacy, and to enforce those words with unambiguous deeds. We call on our representatives — from local leaders to the president of the United States — to reject any narrative that suggests that “both sides” deserve equal blame, and to dismiss all claims of moral equivalency between white supremacists and those who oppose them.

• ‘Nation State’ Law Threatens the Very Future of Israel

  July 19, 2018

  The Nation State Bill just passed by the Knesset endangers Israeli democracy, legalizes discrimination against 20 percent of Israeli citizens, threatens religious pluralism, and threatens the very future of Israel. The passage of this bill, a change to Israel’s Basic Laws, comes during a week in which the Knesset also approved laws that attempt to...