T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

HAPPENING NOW: On the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av, which mourns the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem, we call on our leaders to #RebuildSanctuary and resist the federal assault on the dignity, safety, and well-being of immigrants in our community.

Today, we grieve for all those suffering at the hands of federal immigration enforcement, and we reject the weaponization of antisemitism as a tool to attack civil liberties: #NotInOurName!

We ask our state leaders: Pass the #DignityNotDeportations Act. No state or municipal coordination with ICE!

Happening now: 100s of Jewish community members from over 30 congregations + organizations -- organized by T'ruah, @theracgram, & @jalsa_boston -- gathered outside of ICE HQ in Burlington, MA. We are marking Tisha B’Av – the saddest day in the Jewish calendar – with a call to #RebuildSanctuary.

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MA residents: take action for the Dignity Not Deportations Act: bit.ly/TishaBavDign...

While you are at it, sign LUCE's petition to protect immigrants: bit.ly/IndividualLUCE & the petition asking for community investment, not $360 million for new prison construction: bit.ly/NoNewMAPrison

Tisha B’Av: The Hunger We Cannot Ignore | T'ruah Rabbi Jonah Winer

From Rabbi Jonah Winer: “How can we possibly heal the exilic suffering of the world when things feel so broken?”

On Monday my son was sworn into the IDF. I spent that afternoon protesting the Israeli government. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency My stake in the future of Israel as a democratic state with a moral army is greater than ever. 

Rabbi Daniel Gropper: On Monday my son was sworn into the IDF. I spent that afternoon protesting the Israeli government. www.jta.org/2025/08/01/i...

The horrific conditions at the ICE detention tent facility in Florida - extreme heat, overcrowding, medical neglect, NO access to due process, extreme environmental consequences - are a moral disgrace.

Every person deserves dignity.

The camp must be shut down immediately.

#CloseEverglades

Monday, August 4, at 1 PM ET:

Join T'ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs on Debra Shushan's "The Debrief" to discuss Jews, Mamdani, and the NYC mayoral race.

Register here: buff.ly/mEt3j0S

(2/2) Read the letter, and find the full list of signatories: buff.ly/ckLJ53I

Over 550 Jewish clergy across the U.S. joined together in a public letter by T'ruah and @cluejustice condemning the indiscriminate and violent ICE raids that have occurred in Southern California and throughout the United States, targeting valued members of our communities. (1/2)

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: End the Silence: A Community Call to Action. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. J Street is proud to be hosting a National Mobilization Call to rally our community to shatter the wall of silence and call for an end to this war, the return of the hostages and a surge of aid into…

TODAY at 12 PM ET:

Don't miss T'ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs at J Street's national mobilization call to rally our community to shatter the wall of silence and call for an end to this war, the return of the hostages, and a surge of aid into Gaza.

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35 rabbis arrested in NYC and DC protests for Gaza food aid - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The arrests come as reports of mass starvation in Gaza draw global outcry.

Let Gaza live. Let a surge of food and other aid in NOW.

This is what moral leadership looks like. This is what rabbis do.

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(2/2) This event is a mass mobilization of American Jews who object to our government's continued support for the policy of starvation and refusal to leverage its immense power to compel the admission of humanitarian aid.

*Please do not bring flags.*

NYC: Join us Monday, August 4 at 6:30pm by Trump Hotel in Columbus Circle.

We need to keep up the pressure and get more food and aid into Gaza NOW before more Palestinians die of starvation. (1/2)

We refuse to accept business as usual while people are starving.

We insist that Israel be held accountable.

We insist that a surge of aid be brought into Gaza, that the hostages be released, and that the war ends NOW.

As we were handcuffed and taken away, a crowd of hundreds of American Jews and Israeli Americans cried out "Let Gaza Live!" At one point, the crowd chanted "That's My Rabbi," and we were so moved by the support, giving us strength to keep being a loud moral voice.

Last night, a minyan of T'ruah rabbis wearing tallitot and holding sacks of flour and rice blocked 2nd Avenue in New York City, in front of the Israeli consulate. We held signs that said "Food --> Gaza" and posters with images of starving Gazan children. 🧵

Rabbis arrested in front of the Israeli consulate tonight, crying out Let Gaza Live!

“This is a humanitarian crisis. This is a moral crisis.” Rabbi Daniel Gropper

Hundreds of American Jews and Israelis are here outside the Israeli consulate crying out: Stop starving Gaza. Ceasefire now. Bring them home. End the war.

Rep Jerry Nadler puts the blame squarely where it belongs: Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs: “Our hearts are big enough to hold it all. Our hearts are big enough to cry over it all.”

Rabbis and other Jews are gathering in front of the Israeli consulate to cry out: Let Aid Into Gaza Now!

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Powerful article from Rumeysa Ozturk about the harrowing conditions she faced in 45 days of immigrant detention in Louisiana. As the administration tries to expand ICE, more of these horrors that violate core Jewish values will happen.

A surge of food, medicine, and other aid into Gaza, right now. Period.

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By @jilljacobs.bsky.social
@truahrabbis.bsky.social

Powerful and necessary column by our Progressive Israel Network colleague, @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social, CEO of @truahrabbis.bsky.social.
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Undocumented people need Jewish allies. Why can't they find them? Undocumented people in the United States are under siege by Trump's administration. Where is the Jewish outrage?

"It is time for the Jewish community...to step up in support. Nearly every family has a story of someone who once stayed hidden or silent to survive. To respond with indifference today — or worse, with strategic calculation — is a moral failure."

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

NEW from Rabbi Jill Jacobs: "It is time for American Jewry to take an accounting of how many of our communal institutions and leaders are continuing to defend and support a war that has left an unbearable path of death and destruction in its wake."

(M)oral Torah: Community is a necessary ingredient for resistance movements.

"When so much feels like it is crumbling around us, community just might be the only thing that saves us," urges Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm.

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