330 Rabbis Call on Israel to Cease Arms Sales to Burma

As U.S. rabbis and cantors, we join in the recent call issued by 55 Israeli rabbis and community leaders urging the Israeli government to stop weapons sales to Burma (Myanmar) and military training services there in the face of a brutal, potentially genocidal campaign against the Rohingya minority community. We also support the members of Congress who have stepped across party lines to issue a bipartisan letter calling for the U.S. to “immediately suspend all planned training programs with Burma’s military.” 
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T’ruah Applauds Agreement Between Hyatt Hotels and Union of Hospitality Workers (UNITE HERE); Rabbis Essential In Campaign to Support Rights of Hotel Workers

T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, praised this week’s national agreement between Hyatt Hotels Corporation and UNITE HERE, the union of hospitality workers in the U.S. and Canada. The new contracts increase wages and maintain healthcare and other benefits for thousands of Hyatt employees through 2018. UNITE HERE said the agreement will end its...
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T’ruah letter to Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Dear Rabbi Riskin, As American rabbis, we, your colleagues, write to you to ask you to retract and apologize for your statement comparing President Barack Obama to Haman. As rabbis, we know the importance of being careful with our words. In the Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 13a), Rabbi Yishmael the scribe warns his student Rabbi Meir,...
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