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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Funding Transparency

“These are the records of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle of the Pact, which were drawn up at Moses’ bidding…” -Exodus 38:21 According to Midrash, after the Mishkan (Tabernacle) was completed, some Israelites accused Moses of misusing their donations. Moses’ response was a full accounting of every piece of jewelry, gold, and precious stone that the...
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Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson

Lev (he/him) was ordained in 2013 from Hebrew College, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. In 2017, Lev was honored by the Covenant Foundation with a Pomegranate Prize, which recognizes early-career Jewish educators. Before attending rabbinical school, Lev taught fifth grade at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan for three years and worked for...
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Rabbi Aaron Levy

Rabbi Aaron Levy is the founder and director of Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism, named one of North America’s 50 most innovative Jewish nonprofits in Slingshot ’10-’11. He inspires diverse Jews and non-Jews by fusing ritual and ethical practice, by teaching in an open-minded and intellectually serious style, and by making Judaism’s joy and playfulness apparent through...
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Rabbi Eric Solomon

Eric M. Solomon currently serves as a rabbi in Raleigh, North Carolina. He began his career as  the  Marshall T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellow at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York.  He is married to Rabbi Jennifer Solomon,  founding Director of the Libi Eir Community Mikveh,  and has three children.
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Jessica Fisher

Jessica Fisher is a second year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Before beginning rabbinical school she ran the Chicago Diller Teen Fellows, a leadership development program for Jewish teens, and worked at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, she first moved to New York to attend the joint...
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Rabbi Daniel Ross Goodman

Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer and a rabbinical student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) in New York, where he is editor-in-chief of the YCT Jewish Studies Journal. He is a regular contributor to Public Discourse (a publication of The Witherspoon Institute) and The Weekly Standard. Several of his articles have been Editors’ Picks in...
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Meggie O’Dell

Meggie O’Dell is a second-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where she is also pursuing a master’s degree in Jewish sacred music through the H.L. Miller Cantorial School. Before coming to New York, Meggie lived in Chicago, where she completed one year at Northwestern University School of Law and later worked...
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Rabbi Daniel Kirzane

Rabbi Daniel Kirzane was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City in 2014. During his summer at T’ruah he interned at Safe Horizon’s Anti-Trafficking Program.
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Sandra Lawson

Sandra Lawson is a second year rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Prior to moving to Philadelphia she worked as a personal trainer, an Adjunct Professor, and served as the Investigative Researcher for the Anti-Defamation League’s Southeast Region, becoming the go-to person when Law Enforcement in the South needed information on hate groups. As...
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