![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/annie-lewis-protest-2-e1479226802330.jpg)
An Echo of Shofar
At the end of June, my husband and I took our daughter, Zohar, to Harrisburg. She was six months old at the time. We each put on a tallit (the baby’s was a black onesie screen-printed with an image of a tallit) and gathered in a tent on the Capitol steps along with rabbis, cantors...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/torah-2020-image-38-1024x536.png)
Favoring the Many, Not the Mighty
This is but one example in a web of inequity that favors an ever-shrinking group of American elites... And yet, one word — Ish, a person — repeated over and over again in the dictation of these mitzvot is a reminder that the work is indeed mine to do as an individual.
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/torah-2020-image-20-1024x536.png)
Abraham and the Unexpected Needs of Refugees
As our ancestor Abraham experienced, our most liminal moments also often coincide with moments calling for meaning-making and the rituals that bring us spiritually home. Yet few who flee by forced circumstances arrive with the means that Abraham had to purchase the dignity of sacred space and time.
read more
![Headshot of Rabbi Jay LeVine](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Jay-Levine-Portrait-Sizer.jpg)
Tetzaveh: Meet the Darkness with a Persistent Light
We need each other’s lights. A friend, colleague, or ally — perhaps even those we consider adversaries — have the sacred potential to ignite in us the lamp of tamid consciousness and the willingness to widen our circles and give ourselves to the tasks of care, compassion, advocacy, and love.
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/TFT-with-border.jpg)
The Drought Down the Street
Rabbi Jonah Rank examines unequal distribution of resources and the impact it has on kids in this reading of Parshat Ekev.
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/torah-20_20-image-25-1024x536.png)
Peace is Easy: When Everything Has Gone So Far Afield, How Do We Make Peace?
A D’var Torah for Parshat Vayishlach by Rabbi Rachael Bregman I live in the land where Trump and Biden signs face off from across property lines. We are told daily that our brothers, our neighbors, are a threat to our lives, are our enemies, because of how we vote. My “other” is not an abstraction,...
read more
![T'ruah Rally](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/more-b-roll11-1024x683.jpg)
About T’ruah
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights brings the Torah's ideals of human dignity, equality, and justice to life by empowering rabbis and cantors.
read more