![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TfT-logo-600x600-e1525114857372.png)
Every Person Counts? (Parshat Bamidbar)
Commentary on Parshat Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20) Our Torah portion opens with the taking of another census of B’nai Yisrael – the Children of Israel – this time “listed by their clans, ages 20 years and up, all those in Israel who are able to bear arms…” (Num. 1:2) This is census number three since the...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TfT-logo-600x600-e1525114857372.png)
Isaac, Ishmael, Hebron, and Us (Parshat Chayei Sarah)
Commentary on Parshat Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1 – 25:18) וַיִּקְבְּר֨וּ אֹת֜וֹ יִצְחָ֤ק וְיִשְׁמָעֵאל֙ בָּנָ֔יו אֶל־מְעָרַ֖ת הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֑ה… And they buried him [Abraham], Isaac and Ishmael his sons, in the Cave of Machpelah … (Genesis 25:9) Isaac and Ishmael only appear together in one line of the Torah portion Chayei Sarah, when they meet in Hebron to...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mordechai-1-683x1024.jpg)
Rosh Pinna: Keystone of Justice
I am standing by a pristine mountain stream at 10,000 ft. in the Wind River Range in Wyoming and sobbing. My hiking partner Ed, whose family has been here for hundreds of years, has just said to me that the land belongs to me as much as it does to him. That was nearly 40...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TfT-logo-600x600-e1525114857372.png)
The Triple Lives of Refugees (Parshat Shemot)
Commentary on Parshat Shemot (Exodus 1:1 – 6:1) The opening lines of the book of Exodus serve as a bridge between a family history and the birth of a nation. Somehow, in an infinitesimal span, the progeny of one man becomes an entire people: the Israelites. And a very prolific one at that. The new...
read more
![Countdown to Closing Rikers flyers](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.31.23-Countdown-to-Closing-Rikers1-1024x1024.png)
Countdown To Close Rikers Rally
Join T'ruah and Freedom Agenda on August 31, 2023 from 10-11 a.m. ET at City Hall Park to kick off the official countdown of Rikers closer, and remind Mayor Adams that closing Rikers is required by law, and New York City has a legal and moral obligation to get it done.
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/truah-benefit23-facebook-website-header-1024x536.png)
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!
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Left-and-Right-Gili-Getz-1024x536.png)
Spotlight On: Rabbi Mira Rivera
Rabbi Mira Rivera is Associate Rabbi and Director of Pastoral Care at Romemu in New York City. She serves as a rabbi and mentor at Ammud: the Jews of Color Torah Academy and actively supports LUNAR: the Asian-Jewish Film Project. She has co-chaired the rabbinical council of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and continues...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/vaisberg.jpg)
Seeing the Invisible
With the collective stress of thousands of commuters all trying to get from point A to point B, subway transit in New York can be a little overwhelming. When I’m in the city, I deal with the stress like many fellow riders— I behave as though surrounded by a protective bubble. I notice just enough...
read more