Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the CEO of T’ruah, a rabbinic human rights organization representing over 2,300 rabbis and cantors and their communities in North America.
Jill Jacobs
By Jill Jacobs
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Opinion Why are American Jewish institutions ignoring the hostage families?
Most major American Jewish organizations have stopped short of criticizing the Netanyahu government or calling for an end to the war
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Opinion Young Jews are fleeing Jewish institutions: Here’s how to keep them
Jewish communal groups should welcome Jews regardless of their relationship to Israel
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Opinion Why do so many conversations about Israel exclude more than half of the Jewish population?
The maleness of the American Jewish conversation on Israel is becoming a problem
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Opinion How did Israeli democracy come under threat? Follow the money
American Jewish donors have helped to subsidize Israel's drift into illiberalism
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Opinion You don’t have to choose between loving Israel and opposing the occupation
I recently joined a rally to protest the horrific conditions at Rikers’ Island, where 14 people, all awaiting trial, have died in the past year. I walked away in tears at the pain of these families and individuals, and angered yet again by the racist structures that put a disproportionate number of people of color…
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Opinion Why does the Democratic Party – like American Jewish institutions – refuse to condemn the occupation?
This week, the Democratic party rejected adding the word “occupation” to its official party platform on Israel. Many seemed to consider this term a political statement, rather than what it is — a neutral description of a category in international law, which defines occupied territory as that “placed under the authority of the hostile army.”…
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Opinion Netanyahu And Trump Are Xenophobic Tyrants. We Must Resist Them – Together.
For American Jews, the recent resurgence of American nativism recalls the worst moments of the last century. American nativism brought us the Immigration Act of 1924, a racist law that closed America’s borders to Jews and other “undesirables,” and that ultimately barred our forebears from escaping the Nazis and finding refuge in America. Jews then…
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Opinion Stop Looking For The Next Heschel. They Are All Around You.
In this week’s Forward, Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner looks for “a prophet who will speak out as a Jew.” She looks first for an elected official who will bring moral leadership to Washington, and then reminisces about prominent Jewish leaders from outside of the halls of Congress. “Where is our Abraham Joshua Heschel today?” she asks….
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