Resources

“Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her; rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her.”

(Isaiah 66:10)

 

Resources

Prayers

• Al HaNisim: A Prayer on Miracles for Yom Yerushalayim, by Rabbi Gilah Langner for Yom Yerushalayim, 2012/5772.
• Submit Your Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem

 

Text Studies

• Justice for Jerusalem Human Rights Shabbat Packet 2012/5773 , by Joshua Bloom, Ilanit Goldberg, Megan Goldman, and Rocky Salomon.

 

• Jerusalem: A City of Beauty, Suffering, Might, Wisdom, Hypocrisy, and Torah

  A supplemental discussion guide to Just Vision's documentary film "Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah," written by Rabbinical Student Ilanit Goldberg, Joshua Bloom, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, November 2012.

  • Film Information
  • Full Text Study Packet
  • Facilitator's Guide
  • Participants' Copy

• Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
  A supplemental discussion guide to Just Vision's documentary film "My Neighbourhood," written by Rabbinical Student Ilanit Goldberg, Joshua Bloom, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, November 2012.
  • Film Information
  • Full Text Study Packet
  • Facilitator's Guide
  • Participants' Copy

 

• Justice for Jerusalem Text Study Packet
  Written by Rabbinical Student Megan Goldman, Joshua Bloom, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, May 2012.
  
  • Full Text Study Packet

 

• Jerusalem: Earthy City or Celestial Dwelling Place of God?
  • Facilitator's Guide
  • Participants' Copy

 

• The King's Garden: When Memory and Messiness Collide
  • Facilitator's Guide
  • Participants' Copy
    
    
• The King's Garden: Biblical Heritage, Eminent Domain, and Moral Challenge
  • Facilitator's Guide
  • Participants' Copy

 

Divrei Torah

• Numbers in Israeli Discourse: From Palestinians, to Bedouin, to Women of the Wall, a D'var Torah for Parashat Bamidbar by Rabbinical Student Tamara Cohen, 2013/5773.
• Sermon Ideas for Speaking about Jerusalem on Human Rights Shabbat , for Haftarah Shabbat Chanukah, by Ilanit Goldberg, 2012/5773.
• Poetry of Protest: What Kind of Action Can Tisha B’Av Inspire? A D'var Torah for Tisha B'Av, by Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer, Ph.D., 2012/5772.
• Jerusalem's Many Faces, a D'var Torah for Human Rights Shabbat 2011/5772 by Marisa Elana James, T'ruah's Rabbinical Student Fellow in Israel, 2011/5772.
• What Is Our Dream of Zion? A D'var Torah by Rabbi Edward Feld, 2011.
• Every City Has a Name... A D'var Torah by Rabbinical Student Miriam Farber, 2010/5771.
• Falling in Love Again with Israel, Thoughts for the High Holidays by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, 2008/5769.

 

Press Releases, Public Statements, and Op-Eds

• T’ruah Applauds Jerusalem Mayor’s Statement that There will be “No Evictions” in Al-Bustan Neighborhood, May 13, 2013.
• A New Jerusalem Day? By Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Open Zion, The Daily Beast, May 18, 2012.
• JNF Should Plant Trees, Not Uproot Families by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, syndicated by JTA, March 1, 2012.
• Rabbis Urge JNF to Permanently Stop Evicting Palestinians from East Jerusalem. December 13, 2011.
• We Must Talk about the Two Jerusalems by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, syndicated by JTA, May 31, 2011.
• Rabbis for Human Rights-North America Ad Condemning Home Demolitions. The following ad was run in the New York Jewish Week and the Forward on March 19, 2004/5764.

 

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