T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
T’ruah brings the Torah’s ideals of human dignity, equality, and justice to life by empowering rabbis and cantors to be moral voices and to lead Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights for all people in the United States, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Cry aloud; do not be silent. Lift up your voice like a shofar.
— Isaiah 58:1
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Tell Congress: Free All Children from ICE Detention
Children do not belong in detention. Free them all now. Learn more >>Featured
Israel Must Purge the Bloodguilt of Settler Violence
Rabbi Jonah Winer argues that we must move the North American Jewish community’s discourse from a focus on the crimes of individual radical settlers, to the violence of the occupation and settlement projects as a whole.
Mobilize Voters at a Chutzpah Phone Bank: Sep 24, 2026
T’ruah is teaming up with Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action to ensure that people who care about climate, and about justice, get to the polls for every election.
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Ki Tetze: Leave the Corners of the Field
by Rabbi Kari Tuling, Ph.D. |Ki Tetze
An abiding concern for human rights, and for upholding the inherent dignity of even the poorest among us, has been a key feature of the Jewish tradition, originating with this Torah verse and carrying into the present day.
