T’ruah’s complete Jewish guide to the New Sanctuary Movement is here in a revised and expanded edition! This resource includes:
- Background information on sanctuary and immigration, placing them in the larger context of white nationalism and America’s history with immigration
- Concrete steps to take
- An original essay grounding sanctuary work in Jewish tradition and text
- A concise summary of Bible scholar Christiana Van Houten’s monograph Alien in Israelite Law
- Three ready-to-use text studies
- Stories of how Jewish communities are involved in the sanctuary movement, including immigrants facing deportation within the Jewish community
- The Sanctuary Mezuzah, an 8.5×11 poster to print and hang as a public declaration of your community’s commitment to immigrant rights
Learn more about our work to support immigrants and asylum seekers.
To browse or download one section at a time, use the following table of contents:
3-5: Introduction & Big Picture
6: Fact Sheet
7-9: What is Sanctuary?
10-11: History of Sanctuary
12-13: Immigration Timeline
14-16: Definitions
17: Mikdash Mezuzah
18-19: Text Study I: When the Government Comes to Take You Away
20-21: Know How to Respond
22-26: Jewish Sources on and Grounding for Sanctuary
27-29: Text Study II: Accompaniment
30-31: Text Study III: Sodom
32-33: Defining ‘Ger’
34: Further Reading
We’re grateful to Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah for partly funding this revised and expanded edition.