Jewish Poll Workers Recruitment Day

Poll Worker Recruitment Day is August 1st, 2024, and this year, thanks to our involvement in the Jewish Partnership for Democracy, T'ruah is doing our part. Sign up now to power the polls!
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Rabbi Lester Bronstein

Lester Bronstein has served as rabbi of Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in White Plains, New York since 1989. He has served in leadership roles with the Westchester Board of Rabbis, the White Plains Religious Leaders Association, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, the UJA-Federation of New York, the JFNA Rabbinic Cabinet, the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education,...
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Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Rabbi Jill Jacobs (she/her) is the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, an organization that trains and mobilizes more than 2,300 rabbis and cantors and their communities to bring a moral voice to protecting and advancing human rights in North America, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of...
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Year-in-Israel Program

***As of October 7, our in-person Israel programs are on hold. Rabbinical and cantorial students in Israel can check back here for updates.*** About the Year-in-Israel Program The T’ruah Year-in-Israel Program offers rabbinical and cantorial students spending the academic year in Israel the opportunity to develop their moral voice on human rights issues in Israel...
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Join the T’ruah Book Club

Join the T’ruah network in reading a timely book about human rights, learning related Jewish texts, and participating in an interactive webinar with the author. You can read together with your existing book club, with members of your synagogue or other institution, with a friend, or on your own. Or let us know if you...
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T’ruah Human Rights in Israel-Palestine Summer Seminar

T’ruah Human Rights in Israel-Palestine Summer Seminar Monday July 18 – Thursday July 21, 2022 T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights invites rabbinical and cantorial students to join us for an intensive 4-day experiential seminar to explore civil rights and human rights issues in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Register here. Learn about...
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Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater is the Executive Director of Friends in Deed, a local, religious-based non-profit addressing homelessness and poverty in the greater Pasadena area. After 5 years in congregations on the east coast, he served 12 years as senior rabbi of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, where he established himself as an activist and...
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Mimi Micner

Mimi Micner is currently a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. Before attending Hebrew College, she was the Senior New England Campus Organizer with J Street U, where she organized college students for a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Before working at J Street U, Mimi was a union organizer with...
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Rachel (Braun) Rubenstein

Rachel Braun is a first year rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University. Rachel grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended Chicagoland Jewish High School. She then got her BA at Washington University in St. Louis in International Studies with a focus on the Middle East and...
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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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