STEP – Synagogue Teams for Equity and Partnerships

STEP brings together New York-area synagogues who want to build new relationships or deepen existing ones with non-Jewish communities of color, in order to join hands in the struggle for racial and economic justice. In 2021, nine congregations came together to build skills for building relational coalitions and collaboration across lines of difference, particularly race....
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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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Letter from the Mexico Border

T’ruah chaver Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie shared this letter after returning from our March 2019 delegation with HIAS to El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, in Mexico. Since the Trump administration launched its “zero tolerance” policies at the Mexico border, T’ruah has sent five clergy delegations to bear witness and stand in solidarity with immigrants and...
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Supporters

Our work is made possible through your donations! Thank you to those who have supported us financially. View our honor roll of people who’ve created Facebook fundraisers for T’ruah here. $25,000+ Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York Dorot Foundation American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO Michael Skloff Lili Perski The Nathan Cummings Foundation...
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