Refugees, Again: A Learning and Solidarity Visit to the Bedouin Village of Umm al-Hiran with Rabbis for Human Rights
Join the Truah Year-in-Israel Program in partnership with Rabbis for Human Rights’s Tu B’Shvat Tiyyul to Tel Aviv’s Givat Amal neighborhood on Friday, February 10, 2017. The tiyyul is entitled We Are Not Invaders: The Mizrahi Struggle Against Eviction in Tel Aviv's Givat Amal Neighborhood. Learn about this Mizrahi working-class neighborhood’s history since its establishment in the 1950s.
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A Q&A with Charlottesville’s Rabbi Tom Gutherz and Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin
On Aug. 12, 2017 Rabbi Tom Gutherz and Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin of Charlottesville’s Congregation Beth Israel — the city’s only synagogue — confronted a nightmare in their backyard: the horrifying Unite the Right Nazi rally. T’ruah was the only major national Jewish organization with a presence at the counter-protests that day. T’ruah honored both rabbis...
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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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Witness and Lament: Mourn with the Jewish Community for Our Broken Immigration System
Outside Temple Beth-El (3330 Grove Ave.) Parking available in lot behind Temple off of Roseneath Road, and along Grove Avenue and side streets. Tisha B’Av (the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av) is the saddest day of the Jewish calendar, a day of mourning, fasting, and lamentation, marking the ancient destruction of the Holy...
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Plant Two Trees for Justice
Plant seeds of justice in Israel and the West Bank, to honor or remember a loved one.
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As Jews, we must stay the path and save lives
We are more than halfway through counting the omer — the period between Pesach and Shavuot. We have emerged from slavery and are well on our way to the liberation of standing at Sinai, affirming our status as a community with shared laws, values, and responsibilities for one another. When we start counting the omer, we know...
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Become a Member of the Shofar Society
Invest in your Jewish values now, and join a community of likeminded people.
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Ready to rabbi, thanks to you
Three days after Election Day, we stood with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim clergy colleagues outside of the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted. We came to lift our voices in prayer to assert that “Every vote is sacred.” We came to honor our ancestors who paved our way to the polls, especially Black...
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