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Gala 2022 Honoree Committee
Each year, T’ruah honors a group of extraordinary clergy who demonstrate an unwavering commitment to living and working in accordance with a Torah of justice and human rights. And each year we turn to our supporters to help us find these remarkable leaders by nominating their clergy colleagues and friends. Nominations for our 2022 Rabbinic...
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Movement Chaplaincy Course 2022
Are you a rabbi, cantor or rabbinical/cantorial student interested in providing spiritual, emotional, and relational support to those on the front lines of today’s movements for justice? Are you looking for ways to make your own justice work more committed, resilient, sustainable, and spiritually rooted? Join T’ruah’s Movement Chaplaincy community of practice as we move...
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Letter to Secretary Blinken Urging U.S. To Intervene, Stop Demolitions in Al-Walaja
May 12, 2022 Secretary of State Antony Blinken 2201 C St NWWashington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Blinken, Our organization, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, represents over 2,300 rabbis and cantors who strive to protect and advance the human rights of both Israelis and Palestinians. We are writing today to ask the Biden administration to...
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Meet our 2024 Gala Honorees
Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award From the arts, to the United Nations, to Human Rights Watch, Marina Kaufman has dedicated her life to human rights for all people. In 1978, she became involved with an organization called the University for Peace in Costa Rica, where she was one of the “producers” of a benefit concert...
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Synagogues Supporting Refugees: Welcome Corps Info Session with HIAS
Join T'ruah and HIAS for an info session for Welcome Corps: a program where a private sponsorship initiative developed by the U.S. government to expand their capacity to resettle refugees. HIAS is recruiting more and more synagogues to this effort - could yours be one of them?
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Hannah Weilbacher
Hannah (she/her) comes to T’ruah having worked as an organizer and advocate in the field of Jewish social justice. Before T’ruah, Hannah served American Jewish World Service as Senior Program Officer for Jewish Advocacy and Engagement, where she worked with rabbis and cantors who are passionate about human rights. Hannah also worked at the Jewish...
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Rabbi Ali (Sagadencky) Lawton
Ali Sagadencky is a third year rabbinical student at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California. Ali was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She completed her undergraduate and graduate work at Pepperdine University, receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts as well as a Master’s Degree in Education with an emphasis on Early Childhood...
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Sara LeMesh
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Sara LeMesh (she/her) is a cantorial student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (‘26). Sara earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Rice University and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Bard College-Conservatory of Music. After graduate school, Sara relocated to San...
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Our Positions & Policies
Two Sovereign States for Israelis and Palestinians The world is sustained by justice, truth and peace: דין אמת ושלום. As rabbis, cantors, and Jewish community members who love and care deeply about Israel, we believe that a just and secure future for Israelis and Palestinians will best be achieved by a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
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