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With many expected refugees from crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine, T’ruah rabbis support enhancing California Extended Case Management Program

We, the undersigned Jewish clergy of T’ruah in California, ask for the legislature to support an investment in a new California Extended Case Management (CECM) program, which will transform the lives of over 30,000 newly arrived Californians...

March 9, 2022 Attn: Illinois Investment Policy Board We are a group of Illinois rabbis and cantors who are part of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, a national Jewish organization representing over 2,300 rabbis and cantors across the country. We were deeply disappointed when Illinois passed SB 1761 in 2015, part of the...

February 10, 2022 Dear Ambassador Herzog, In recent months, we have seen an alarming increase in frequent and violent attacks on Palestinians by settlers. A recent study shows that the majority of incidents take place in areas near outposts that are considered illegal even by Israeli law. As Jewish clergy and members of T’ruah, a...

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It’s been a month since I spent a day in East Jerusalem with 15 other rabbinical and cantorial students as part of T’ruah’s Israel Program. I needed time to gather my thoughts and feelings before writing. We saw a lot that day — the Green Line that was once the border between Israel and Jordan,...

As rabbis and cantors, we urge you to pass this legislation before the end of the current legislative session, ending solitary confinement and replacing it with alternative forms of separation that are proven to better enhance the safety, health, and well-being of all New Yorkers.

This drawing-near is ultimately what leads to Joseph’s emotions overwhelming him; breaking from silence into sobbing, he orders the room cleared and then reveals himself to his brothers. Our drawing-near is also what engaged our emotions and drew us from silence into speech.

I am puzzled by the ways in which a country that readily replaces phones and computers as soon as we experience even the slightest decrease in performance can insist that our inherited system for organizing our economy and government works just fine.

Our hearts and bodies want to give, but our brains get in the way.