Danny Drachsler
Danny (he/him) is committed to supporting organizations that strengthen the Jewish community and advance tikkun olam. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2005 and a Masters degree in Experiential Jewish Education from the Davidson School at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2014. He is proud to have been...
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Margo Hughes-Robinson
Margo Hughes-Robinson will graduate from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2021. Prior to studying at JTS, Margo graduated from Clark University in Worcester, MA, where she graduated with degrees in Theatre and Jewish Studies, and at the Year Program at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. She is a passionate interfaith organizer and educator, teaching Jewish-Christian...
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Chayva Lehrman
Chayva is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, expecting to graduate in 2022. She feels very fortunate to be starting a career that incorporates her love of Jewish community, music, spirituality, social justice, and learning. Chayva grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area at Congregation Beth Am...
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Ways to Give
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What It Means to Be a Sanctuary Synagogue
“Sanctuary” as defined by the contemporary New Sanctuary Movement has a variety of different meanings, all of which have the ultimate goal of protecting immigrants and preventing deportation. An individual local sanctuary network may have different definitions or needs from a sanctuary network in another community. These are the different forms of congregational participation as...
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Letters from the U.S.-Mexico Border
T’ruah, together with our friends from HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees, has brought over 100 rabbis and cantors to the United States-Mexico border to bear witness to the humanitarian crisis there. Standing amid so much suffering and injustice was difficult, but we were heartened to meet many heroic activists working to help...
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With flags at half-mast, here’s what we have to lift up
May 22, 2020 Dear Friends, Yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer asked President Trump to lower the flag to half-mast when the United States soon reaches the tragic landmark of 100,000 who have died of COVID-19. A lowered flag can’t possibly capture the pain of the deaths of more than 100,000 people, or...
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