2024 Gala Honoree Selection 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 2024 Rabbinic...
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Racial Justice

“When the community is immersed in suffering, a person may not say: I will go to my home and I will eat and drink, and be at peace with myself.” -Taanit 11a Racial justice is a Jewish value, and Black lives matter. Period. Unlike the other issues T’ruah works on, the pursuit of racial justice...
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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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Marc I. Gross

Marc Gross is Managing Partner of Pomerantz LLP. His litigation has focused on securities fraud class actions and derivative actions, as well as antitrust and consumer cases. In 2012 and 2013, Benchmark Litigation named Mr. Gross a “Local Litigation Star” in New York. He has been selected by his peers as a Super Lawyer five...
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Janice Fine

Janice Fine holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Political Science and is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. She teaches and writes about low-wage immigrant labor in the U.S., historical and contemporary debates regarding federal immigration policy, dilemmas of labor standards enforcement and...
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Talia Stein

Talia is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College Rabbinical School, where she is also pursuing a Masters of Jewish Education and anticipates graduating in 2020. Talia grew up in the great city of Philadelphia before moving to Maryland to study economics and public policy at University of Maryland. After school, she moved to Chicago to...
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Talia Stein

Talia is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College Rabbinical School, where she is also pursuing a Masters of Jewish Education and anticipates graduating in 2020. Talia grew up in the great city of Philadelphia before moving to Maryland to study economics and public policy at University of Maryland. After school, she moved to Chicago to...
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David Elitzer

David Elitzer (he/him) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion expecting to graduate in 2026. After graduating with a BA in Archaeology from Brown University, David was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to study wartime cultural heritage destruction. During this time, he received an MSc in International Public Policy from University College...
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Immigration Justice

“Therefore, love the ger*: for you were gerim in the land of Egypt.” -Deuteronomy 10:19 Most immigrants to the U.S. come seeking safety, freedom, and a better life, just as many of our families did. Jewish texts, history, traditions, and values compel us to welcome them with dignity and compassion. But our country’s policies towards...
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T’ruah Human Rights in Israel-Palestine Summer Seminar

T’ruah Human Rights in Israel-Palestine Summer Seminar Monday July 18 – Thursday July 21, 2022 T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights invites rabbinical and cantorial students to join us for an intensive 4-day experiential seminar to explore civil rights and human rights issues in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Register here. Learn about...
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