My trip to Immokalee
CONGREGATION SHA’AREI KODESH 2nd Day of Passover MARCH 27, 2013 © RABBI LOUIS RIESER Hag kasher v’Sameah. I want to thank Rabbi Baum for this invitation to speak about my experience in Immokalee with T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. In January I joined 9 other rabbis to learn first-hand about the conditions...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Portrait-sizer.png)
Shavuot: Revelation in Montgomery
We are called to elevate the difficult truths, and sometimes our complicity in them, in order to “lift them up” for tikkun — for fixing.
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/banner-shofar-pfizer-May-2016.png)
Proclaim Release Throughout the Land: A Service of Hope
Join T’ruah for a service of hope to mark the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War. We will mourn all Israeli and Palestinian victims of the last fifty years of conflict; pray for a better future; and commit to taking action to bring about a secure, democratic and Jewish state of Israel, an independent...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/torah-2020-image-48-1024x536.png)
How Ritual Grounds Us For Activism
Without the structure of community and the grounding of ritual, my action, based on the heat of my emotions, would be like a wildfire rather than a well-tended altar.
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/hebron-street-signs-crop-2.jpg)
Signposts for a Troubling Future
Visiting Hebron, one of the first impressions that hits like a sucker-punch to the stomach is of a ghost town. Streets once bustling with thousands of Palestinians are now traversed almost exclusively by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Freedom of movement is squashed. Palestinian doors are welded shut and porches are caged in, ostensibly to protect...
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Untitled-design-14.png)
Elevating Our Hearts and Spirits Towards Justice
The Mishkan was not just a compound our ancestors built; it is a state of mind that we can inhabit.
read more
![](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Moral-Torah-frame-55.png)
Walking Free: Democracy and Incarceration
Of all the places I have served in a rabbinic capacity, the maximum-security prison where I serve now is the most religious.
read more