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Statements
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T’ruah letter to Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
March 31, 2015
Dear Rabbi Riskin, As American rabbis, we, your colleagues, write to you to ask you to retract and apologize for your statement comparing President Barack Obama to Haman. As rabbis, we know the importance of being careful with our words. In the Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 13a), Rabbi Yishmael the scribe warns his student Rabbi Meir,...
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T’ruah stands with the people of Baltimore
April 29, 2015
T’ruah stands with the people of Baltimore. As rabbis, cantors, and members of the Jewish community, we weep with the family and friends of Freddie Gray. We support the communities of color in Baltimore and around the country in the struggle for police accountability and an end to the systems that allow police violence to...
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T’ruah condemns Texas shooting
May 5, 2015
T’ruah condemns Sunday’s shooting at Pamela Geller’s anti-Islam cartoon event in Richardson, Texas, and sends prayers for recovery to those who were wounded. While Geller’s event was offensive and hateful, no amount of offense justifies attempts to take the life of another human being. Geller’s hateful messages may be protected under our laws, but we...
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“I will keep singing in her ears”: T’ruah statement on the new Israeli government coalition
May 7, 2015
T’ruah is deeply concerned about the composition of the new Israeli government, made up of only right-wing and religious parties. This is the narrowest coalition in recent history–both in numbers and in perspective. As rabbis, cantors, and Jewish lay people committed to building a state of Israel on the foundations of freedom, justice, and peace,...
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“I forgot what happiness was”: T’ruah call to stop the proposed demolition of Susiya
July 29, 2015
T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, which represents 1800 North American rabbis and cantors from all streams of Judaism, joins our rabbinic colleagues in Israel, the UK, and elsewhere in calling for Israel to cancel plans to demolish the Palestinian village of Susiya in the southern Hebron hills in the West Bank and evict...
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T’ruah statement on the terrorist attack in Duma
July 31, 2015
T’ruah expresses our horror at the “price tag” (“tag mechir“) attack last night in the northern West Bank, in which Jewish terrorists murdered an 18-month-old baby, Ali Saad Dawbshe, seriously wounded his parents and four-year-old brother, and destroyed their home and that of another Palestinian family. The words “revenge” and “long live the Messiah” were...
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Their Blood Cries Out From the Ground: T’ruah Statement on Terrorist Attacks
October 7, 2015
Our brothers’ and sisters’ blood cries out to us from the ground. We have watched with pain and sorrow as the recent wave of terror attacks have claimed too many lives and orphaned too many children. We unconditionally condemn these violent attacks on innocent Israeli citizens. No political motive justifies murdering or injuring civilians. We...
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Living Rabin’s Legacy: A Joint Statement of Principles
October 29, 2015
From J Street, New Israel Fund, Americans for Peace Now, T’ruah and Ameinu Twenty years ago, a great defender of Israel and champion of peace was struck down. As we commemorate the yahrzeit of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, z”l, and look at how much Israelis and Palestinians continue to suffer from this conflict, we are...
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T’ruah congratulates President Obama on new federal efforts to “ban the box”
November 4, 2015
T’ruah applauds President Obama’s November 2nd announcement that the federal government will “ban the box” on most federal job applications, mirroring the work of legislative campaigns in more than 100 cities and states around the country. “Banning the box” means eliminating the checkbox on many job applications asking whether an applicant has ever been convicted...
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T’ruah Statement on New Settlement Expansion
November 10, 2015
T’ruah calls on the Israeli government to reverse the decision to approve 2200 new settlement housing units, including legalizing two outposts established against the laws of the state. This move violates the human rights of Palestinians, endangers the lives of Israelis, and threatens the future of a peace solution. Announcing this new construction just as...