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Statements
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T’ruah Statement on New AP Report About NYPD’s Unjustified Targeting of Mosques
August 30, 2013
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, today issued the following statement after a report by The Associated Press revealed that the New York City Police Department, with the approval of a federal judge, had “secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy...
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Jewish Organizations Meet with White House National Security Council and State Department Officials on Israeli Government Plan
August 23, 2013
A delegation of rabbis and leaders from American Jewish and Israeli organizations met on Tuesday at the White House with National Security Council and State Department officials regarding the Israeli-government sponsored “Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev.” This legislation, which seeks to resolve longstanding land disputes between Bedouin Israelis and the...
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T’ruah Applauds Federal Court Ruling Deeming NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk Tactics Unconstitutional
August 12, 2013
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, today praised U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s decision deeming the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practice a violation of the constitutional rights of minorities in the city and calling for a federal monitor to oversee reforms in the NYPD. “This ruling sends a strong message,”...
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T’ruah’s Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights
July 23, 2013
Testimony of Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster Director of North American Programs T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to submit testimony on behalf of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights concerning the moral imperative to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and...
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T’ruah and Right Now Urgently Call on Israeli Government to Stop Deporting Asylum Seekers Back to Eritrea
July 22, 2013
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Right Now: Advocates for African Asylum Seekers in Israel today called on the Israeli Government to immediately halt the deportation of detained Eritrean asylum seekers back to Eritrea. According to detainees in the Saharonim internment camp for asylum seekers, 14 Eritreans who spent the last year in...
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T’ruah Stands Against Harsh Conditions in California Prisons Use of Solitary Confinement Violates American Value of Humane Incarceration and Jewish Commandment Against Excessive or Degrading Punishment
July 12, 2013
As inmates in California prisons completed the first of a three-week hunger strike in protest of that state’s solitary confinement in Special Housing Units, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, today affirmed its solidarity with the strikers and reiterated its stance against the use of solitary confinement in American prisons and jails. “Prisoners in...
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T’ruah Applauds Agreement Between Hyatt Hotels and Union of Hospitality Workers (UNITE HERE); Rabbis Essential In Campaign to Support Rights of Hotel Workers
July 3, 2013
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, praised this week’s national agreement between Hyatt Hotels Corporation and UNITE HERE, the union of hospitality workers in the U.S. and Canada. The new contracts increase wages and maintain healthcare and other benefits for thousands of Hyatt employees through 2018. UNITE HERE said the agreement will end its...
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Jewish Organizations Urge Knesset to Reconsider Plan that Threatens to Dispossess as Many as 30,000-40,000 Bedouin Israelis after Bill Narrowly Passes First Reading
June 27, 2013
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association today urged Members of Knesset to reconsider the “Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev.” This legislation, which seeks to resolve longstanding land disputes between Bedouin Israelis and the state, will likely lead...
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T’ruah Applauds Supreme Court Rulings on DOMA and Prop 8
June 26, 2013
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights today praised the United States Supreme Court Rulings in two marriage equality cases: United States v. Windsor, known also as “DOMA”, and Hollingsworth v. Perry, known also as “Prop 8”. United States v. Windsor challenged the constitutionality of Section 3 of the 1996 “Defense of Marriage Act” or...
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T’ruah Praises President Obama’s Commitment to Closing Guantanamo; Calls for Immediate Action
May 24, 2013
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, a leading Jewish member of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NCRAT), applauds President Obama’s renewed commitment to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, per his May 23rd speech at the National Defense University. We urge him to act quickly to carry out his stated...