T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
T’ruah brings the Torah’s ideals of human dignity, equality, and justice to life by empowering rabbis and cantors to be moral voices and to lead Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights for all people in the United States, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories.Cry aloud; do not be silent. Lift up your voice like a shofar.
— Isaiah 58:1
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Tell Congress: Update the Immigration Registry Law and Clear the Path to Legal Status for Millions!
This legislation would make 8 million undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for longer than 7 years eligible for green cards.Featured
A letter from our CEO (8/6/24)
“There’s no sugarcoating how difficult this moment is,” writes T’ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs.
Democracy and Elections
Text studies, divrei Torah, placards, and more resources for elections.
Student Clergy Preaching Justice at the High Holidays
Join us to workshop ideas as we approach the high holidays. We will also be offering some resources and texts.
(M)oral Torah
VaEt’chanan: Al HaMar VeHamatok: For These Things I Weep
by Rabbi Maya Zinkow |VaEt'chanan
We are not just meant to see the good land, but the whole of it, even what is hard to look at. And when we witness injustice, bitterness, and badness, we are meant to take up the sacred task of picking up the shattered pieces of destruction and building something good, building something worth gazing upon.