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T’ruah Statement on Escalation of Violence on Gaza-Israel Border
May 29, 2018
The Hamas government shares significant blame for the situation in Gaza, as a result of its repression, corruption, terrorism, and continued violent rejection of the existence of Israel. So does Egypt, which has largely closed its border with Gaza. However, Israel, which continues to control Gaza’s borders, air space, and population registry more than a decade after the official disengagement, maintains the greatest responsibility for the humanitarian crisis there, and has the greatest power to ease it.
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T’ruah Opposes Surveillance of Pro-Palestinian Activist
May 24, 2018
All people, regardless of political views, deserve privacy. Conducting surveillance on Ms. Sarsour and her family causes hezek re’iyah, a halachic (Jewish legal) concept describing damage inflicted by looking inside another’s private domain. Likewise, the families of activists must never be targets for politically motivated attacks.
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T’ruah Outraged That a Torturer Will Head the CIA
May 17, 2018
Given Ms. Haspel’s role in the CIA’s now-defunct torture program, her confirmation further reduces the United States’ moral standing at a time when our president daily makes this world a more dangerous place.
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T’ruah Mourns Deaths in Gaza
May 14, 2018
We are deeply saddened by the deaths of at least 52 Palestinians in Gaza today. Our core belief in the creation of every single human being b’tselem elohim does not permit us to mourn only the losses among our own people, but also those among other peoples. Israel certainly has a right to defend its...
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T’ruah Mourns Rabbi Aaron Panken
May 7, 2018
T’ruah mourns the tragic loss of Rabbi Aaron Panken. As president of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Panken was a mentor and role model to many of our rabbis and clergy, and a constant supporter of HUC students taking part in T’ruah programs. Rabbi Panken was a brilliant scholar, a...
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T’ruah Calls On Netanyahu to Pursue a Humane, Long-Term Solution For Asylum Seekers
April 27, 2018
The cancellation of the deportation is the result of hundreds of thousands of Israelis and Jews around the world standing up to insist that Israel fulfill its responsibility toward those fleeing torture, slavery, and war. These activists included the 1,000 T’ruah rabbis who wrote to Netanyahu demanding that he stop the deportations, and the rabbis who delivered letters to 10 embassies and consulates in the United States and Canada
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Jewish Organizations Stand Together To Reject Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Attacks On New Israel Fund
April 10, 2018
The following joint statement was released by Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, J Street, National Council of Jewish Women, and T’ruah: As organizations within the Jewish community, we stand together to reject Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s baseless and ugly attack on the New Israel Fund (NIF). The prime minister blamed NIF for somehow scuttling the...
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T’ruah Statement on Situation in Gaza
April 4, 2018
Affiliation and intent alone do not justify killing. The response to death must always be grief—just as God feels desperate pain over the loss of any of God’s creations, whether righteous or wicked, and whether Jewish or not Jewish.
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Pro-Israel Jewish Organizations Condemn Dangerous Appointment of John Bolton
March 28, 2018
The following joint statement was issued today by Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, J Street, National Council of Jewish Women, the New Israel Fund and T’ruah: As American Jewish organizations and strong supporters of Israel, we are deeply alarmed by the appointment of John Bolton to serve as President Trump’s National Security Advisor. His long...
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Rabbis File Legal Complaints in Regard to Israeli Group for Trading in Prostitution
January 17, 2018
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights asks IRS to suspend tax exempt status of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, urges assemblyman Dov Hikind to distance himself from group. NEW YORK – T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, today filed two complaints in response to reports that Ateret Cohanim, an organization that seeks to...