Becky Jaye

Becky Jaye (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, in New York, class of 2022. Becky is proudly from Brooklyn, New York, where she was raised in an interfaith home. Becky completed her undergraduate degree in American Studies at Yale College and then completed a two-year fellowship in...
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Mikdash: The Jewish Sanctuary Movement

T’ruah’s sanctuary network, Mikdash, is made up of over 70 member communities. We work as part of an interfaith network to mobilize synagogues and other Jewish communities to protect those facing deportation or other immigration challenges. By becoming part of the Mikdash network, communities pledge to take concrete actions, which may include legal support, housing,...
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Free Speech and The Right to Boycott

“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Only an emergency can justify repression. Such must be the rule if authority is to be reconciled with freedom.” -Justice Louis Brandeis T’ruah...
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LA Rally for a Just Immigration Policy

Join Los Angeles’ interfaith community standing united in opposition to the Trump Administration’s inhumane policy of separating parents and children at the border. We will be gathering outside the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices at 300 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 We call on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security...
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Solidarity Tisha B’Av

972 Broad St, Newark, NJ Join together to commemorate the most tragic day of the Jewish calendar with an alternative Maariv service and recitation of Lamentations. Stand in solidarity with immigrants experiencing the contemporary tragedy of unjust law and wanton destruction as we remember the devastation of Jewish communities in the past. Cosponsors include Bnai...
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Tisha B’Av: Historic Catastrophe, Modern Catastrophe

10 New England Executive Park Ste 1, Burlington, Massachusetts  On the saddest day of the Jewish calendar, when we fast in remembrance of destruction and exile, we come together at the ICE office in Burlington to mourn the brokenness of our American immigration system. As children are separated from parents—not just on the southern border,...
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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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Summer Fellowship

Jump to: Information for Applicants >> About the Fellowship The T’ruah Rabbinical and Cantorial Student Summer Fellowship in Human Rights Leadership offers a select cohort of rabbinical and cantorial students the opportunity to work in a human rights or social justice organization, learn about human rights in Jewish text and tradition, and develop their moral...
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