2025 Gala Honoree Committee

Each year, T’ruah honors a group of extraordinary clergy who demonstrate an unwavering commitment to living and working in accordance with a Torah of justice and human rights. And each year we turn to our supporters to help us find these remarkable leaders by nominating their clergy colleagues and friends. Nominations for our 2025 Rabbinic Human...
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Meet our 2022 Honorees

Every year, T’ruah honors several leaders for their commitment to and activism in advancing human rights. Our 2022 honorees will be presented with their awards at our annual gala on May 25, 2022. Heather Booth Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award Inspired by her first trip to Yad Vashem in 1964, Heather Booth has committed her...
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Circumcised Hearts and Stiff Necks

...when we circumcise our hearts we can then turn our necks outward to the world, vulnerable, nakedly open to the experiences of others. The internal work cannot be separated from the work of changing the world, of standing shoulder to shoulder with those who are oppressed. We cannot have one without the other.
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Previous Honorees

2025 Honorees Stephanie Rapp, Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award Stephanie Rapp has held leadership roles in family philanthropy, UN agencies, and non-profit organizations. During her 20 year tenure at the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, she helped create several initiatives that ultimately became Upstart; Bend the Arc; the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable; the Rabbi at GLIDE,...
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