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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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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...
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NYC: Emergency Rally for Israeli Democracy
Please join us in New York City today to make your voice heard.
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Massachusetts
Don’t live in Massachusetts? Check out the Chaverim Hub for opportunities nationally and in your area! Grounded in values of rachamim, mercy, Teshuvah, repentance, and in the understanding that human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim—in the image of God– T’ruah’s rabbis and cantors across the state are leading their communities to fight against mass incarceration...
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Everybody Hurts: Learning from Leviticus to Reclaim Public Ritual Repentance
In this d'var Torah for Parshat Vayikra, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie examines our ancient tools for healing transgressions.
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Together Toward Redemption: Matot-Masei and the Nine Days
The necessary work of teshuva cannot be completed by one individual alone. Rather, our mandate to uphold God’s name “in truth, in justice and in righteousness” can only be achieved through collective action.
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“Good for the Jews”: Not a Zero-Sum Game
The Israelites’ Egyptian bondage was Joseph’s fault. Ok, I admit, the Egyptians were directly to blame. But Joseph’s economic reforms laid the foundation for the enslavement. Let me explain. After Jacob and his sons relocated to Egypt, the famine worsened. Joseph oversaw the collection of funds from the people of Egypt in return for rations...
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Of Migrants and Midwives
While we know the names of Shifra and Puah, the Egyptian midwives who disobeyed Pharaoh and saved Jewish baby boys, in Parashat VaYislach we meet an unnamed midwife who is present for the precarious birth of Benjamin. According to Genesis 35:16-19, while our migrant ancestors were on an arduous journey en route from Beth El...
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Our Immigrant Ancestor
Avraham Avinu, our common ancestor Abraham, was an immigrant. “Go,” God commands in this week’s portion, “from your land, from your native territory, from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” Taking his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and his household members with him, Abram (as he is still named at...
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