Rabbi Ellen Lippmann: Looking back 20 years, I stand in awe and gratitude
Throughout 2022, T’ruah will be sharing reflections from chaverim, staff, board members, students, alumni and more in celebration of our 20th anniversary. Rabbi Ellen Lippmann is the former Co-Chair of the Board of T’ruah and the founder and rabbi emerita of Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives. I knew Rabbi Arik Ascherman in rabbinical school, and admired him then...
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T’ruah’s Annual Gala (In-Person & Virtual)
Raise a glass to five incredible human rights heroes at T'ruah's annual gala on May 10!
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Associate Director of Israel Campaigns
T’ruah is seeking a full-time Associate Director of Israel Campaigns who will engage and mobilize the rabbis and cantors in our network through campaigns related to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This person will develop and implement the next steps in our campaign strategies to achieve impact on protecting the human rights of...
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The Failure of Moses’–and Wendy’s–Leadership
Rabbi Jesse Olitzky writes about Parshat Chukat.
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Eish Zarah: The Feeling of Being Foreign
I had never been inside Perth Amboy’s quaint, two room art gallery on the outskirts of this heavily Hispanic town in Central New Jersey. What brought me inside at this moment, nearly four years after I moved to Perth Amboy to be the rabbi of Congregation Beth Mordecai, the remaining synagogue in town, was not...
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The Holiness of Blemishes
Those of us concerned for the basic human rights of the physically and mentally disabled can easily be dismayed by this week’s Torah portion, Emor. For while Leviticus promises universal access to the sacred, this portion seems to restrict direct access to God to an ever- smaller subset of a tiny priestly minority. This portion...
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The Holiness of Dwelling
“I am a nester,” my friend said just weeks before Pesach, as we pondered the ramifications of her house having been dismantled for mold remediation. Her home is sacred space for her, a place set apart to replenish herself. Normally, she would have been cooking up a storm in her house. Instead, we baked a...
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The Voice of God
The image of God—tzelem Elohim—is often front and center in animating Jewish human rights work. The recent release of the movie Exodus: Gods and Kings (which, admittedly, I have not seen) gave me pause to contemplate the tzelem’s counterpart—the voice of God. Director Ridley Scott is taking some flak for casting 11-year-old Isaac Andrews as...
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