Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Multifaith Mondays: Witness for Democracy. A steady voice for democracy every Monday 5:30, Columbus Circle in NYC

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Israelis for Peace weekly protest.

Full house at Brotherhood Synagogue to hear from Maoz Inon & Aziz Abu Sarah about their work building the possibility for peace & better future for Israelis & Palestinians.

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North American Jews Call For End to Atrocities in Gaza

There is no solution to this conflict that depends on one group subjugating the other through violence and control. The only future for Israelis and Palestinians is a shared future.

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At the UN today: American Jews & Israelis calling on Netanyahu to end the war, bring home the hostages & stop the killing in Gaza. Demonstrating that one can care about the lives of both Israelis & Palestinians.

Wherever he goes, Netanyahu should be haunted by the faces of civilians killed in Gaza and the hostages he abandoned.

Fri, 9/26, 8:30am
Meet at Place of the Rose, 46th St & 2nd Ave

Rosh Hashanah: Tears on the Altar | T'ruah

Some thoughts from me before Rosh Hashanah.

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A record $10M federal grant to Tikvah has some Jews celebrating and others crying foul - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The National Endowment for the Humanities gave the conservative Jewish think tank and education center the grant to fight antisemitism.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of @truahrabbis :

“Tikvah has a long history of pushing conservative ideas into American Jewish spaces, presenting them as Jewish ideas, when these are really ideas that are coming out of the either secular or Christian right-wing world,”

www.jta.org/2025/09/17/u...

Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel launches major ground offensive - follow latest Gaza residents tell the BBC of a night of "hell" under a wave of heavy Israeli air strikes.

Israel's ground incursion into Gaza City is a disaster.

Palestinians are fleeing the bombing in desperation, many on foot, without any assurance of their safety elsewhere.

For what?

Past and present IDF brass admit there is no meaningful military goal that can be achieved this way. (1/2)

Netanyahu's vision of Israel as 'Super Sparta' means eternal siege | Editorial ***

Netanyahu and his coalition are carrying out a messianic, nihilistic plan for permanent war. Last night's ground incursion into Gaza City has already added to the unbearable death toll for Palestinians & threatens the lives of the hostages with no end in sight.

www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Our dearest Rabbi, @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social
Fearless and a light in these dark days. We love you 🕊🤍
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"Antisemitism in schools is serious... Unfortunately Congress and this administration are taking a dangerous and wrong-headed approach that subordinates the needs of Jewish students to a political agenda."

- @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social, CEO of @truahrabbis.bsky.social

There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.

Rev Fred Davie speaks @ rally

Multifaith Mondays-- every Monday people of faith standing for democracy.

A tsunami of protest filled central Tel Aviv last night. Demanding hostage deal and end to war.
Odds are, your English-language media source failed to convey magnitude of the event.
(Credit: Amir Goldstein. His videos show much larger extent of demo, which didn’t fit in frame of a still shot. )

Hundreds of thousands march in Tel Aviv demanding a hostage deal and end to the war on Gaza. (1/2)

Signs calling for end to war, return of hostages, aid to Gaza

Signs calling for end to war, return of hostages, aid to Gaza

If I couldn't be with the hundreds of thousands (or more) marching & striking in Israel today, the next best thing was being with Israelis for Peace in NYC, calling for an end to the war, return of hostages, and surge of aid, in solidarity with the Israelis in the streets today.

Signs calling for end to war, return of hostages, aid to Gaza

Signs calling for end to war, return of hostages, aid to Gaza

If I couldn't be with the hundreds of thousands (or more) marching & striking in Israel today, the next best thing was being with Israelis for Peace in NYC, calling for an end to the war, return of hostages, and surge of aid, in solidarity with the Israelis in the streets today.

100s of thousands of Israelis marching in the street

Tel Aviv today, demanding an end to the war, return of hostages.

"Rabbi, how was your summer?"

In response to Arab parties uniting ahead of the elections, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a full-on Kahanist whose career is built on incitement, said: “Prosecute them, revoke their citizenship, encourage them to leave. Not voluntarily.” (1/7)

Standing up for democracy every Monday at #MultifaithMondays. The faith community is here for as long as it takes.
Glad that @truahrabbis.bsky.social was one of the founders of this weekly vigil/protest.

IDF targets and kills Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif outside Gaza City hospital

This is a travesty. Journalists must be protected during war and certainly should not be targeted.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'Jewish jihad has taken hold': This scholar hopes Gaza war will be Israel's 'ISIS moment' ***

Really important and sobering interview with Assaf David.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

When the prophet Natan tells King David, "the sword shall never depart from your house" (II Samuel 12:10) it's a curse & punishment. Netanyahu has asserted that Israel will always live by the sword--perpetual war, against will of the Israeli people, Palestinians, & even top security experts.

Netanyahu's Gaza takeover plan puts Israel firmly on the road to perpetual war ***

Last night's security council decision will result in more death in Gaza, more starvation, and the death of the hostages & more Israeli soldiers.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This rabbi protests Israel’s government This week, I joined 10 rabbinic colleagues in an act of civil disobedience outside the Israeli Consulate in New York City. Eight of us, including me, were arrested and briefly detained after disrup…

Rabbi Rachel Timoner explains why she got arrested outside the Israeli consulate with a minyan of T'ruah rabbis last week.

Let history remember that this loathsome monster was inciting Rabin’s murder back in the day for trying to make peace.

Nobody can say they didn’t know, didn’t see, couldn’t have imagined.

This was as inevitable as all the steps that preceded it when he’s left unchecked.

No conscience.