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Rabbis for Ceasefire
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In this time of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice to fulfill the most sacred obligation in Jewish tradition Pikuach nefesh: Saving a life.
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Current Signatories: Bend the Arc: Jewish Action Congregation Kol Ami-KC IfNotNow Movement IfNotNow-NYC J Street NYC Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Malkhut NYJA (New York Jewish Agenda) Partners for Progressive Israel Rabbis for Ceasefire T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights Temenos Center for the Arts The American Council for Judaism The Shalom Center The Workers Circle: Jewish Culture for a Just World
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We urge Jewish institutions to work in good faith with the new administration to advance efforts that address all forms of hatred and bigotry. Together, we can help build a city grounded in justice, dignity, and care for every New Yorker.
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We will work with him in his pledge to fight antisemitism and share his conviction that “no one should experience violence because of their race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.” The ADL’s racist and Islamophobic attacks on our mayor-elect undermine our shared commitment to confronting both antisemitism and Islamophobia in New York City.
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We congratulate mayor-elect Zohran K. Mamdani on his election and applaud his vision for “a New York City that is free from hate violence.” Regardless of how we or members of our institutions voted in the race, or how our views of Israel and Palestine align with or differ from his, we stand firmly against the Islamophobic and racist attacks from the institutions claiming to represent our communities.
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A special thank you to the “Jews for Zohran” campaign - our comrades and collaborators at JFREJ and JVP Action – who mobilized tens of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers to embody the spirit of diasporic Jewish life: linking arms across class, race, religion and experience toward a city that can allow everyone to have more and more goodness.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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We offer thanks to the over 1 million New Yorkers who voted for positive change. For a leader who cares about the greater good, and for setting a new standard for political leadership.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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We offer gratitude to the 100,000 volunteers who knocked doors and phone banked and had hard, important conversations. You embodied the rabbinic dictum, "It is not up to you to finish the work, but neither are you free to abandon it,” and by doing so together, you did, indeed, finish the work. You all did good!
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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We congratulate Zohran Mamdani on becoming the mayor elect of New York City. This is a moment of great celebration for the possibilities inherent in this historic mayorship. We believe that he is a leader who will protect the most vulnerable and hold the powerful to account. Yes, we believe Zohran as mayor is good for the Jews!
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Israel has decided to deport two Jewish American women for attempting this act of nonviolent co-resistance – these two women are teachers of righteousness. For Israel to deport them is an avera, an unholy transgression. We encourage all to join us in naming it as such.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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That is why internationals come to help with the olive harvest – in hopes their presence will deter violence from the Israeli settlers and military. Yesterday, a group of activists from the program Achvat Amim (Solidarity of Nations) were detained for trying to support Palestinian farmers in harvesting the fruits of their trees that would become life-sustaining income for their families. This kind of solidarity is holy work; these activists are constructing the building blocks of a shared, stable future.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The olive harvest is underway in the West Bank. For Palestinian farmers, this harvest is a family tradition dating back generations: the methods for how to collect the olives, how to process them into oil, and how to build community while doing it. Again this year the olive harvest is taking place under violent conditions. Israeli settlers burn or cut down dozens of olive trees, some hundreds of years old. The Israeli military protects settlers as they attack Palestinians when they attempt to harvest their own crops. Some Palestinian farmers are simply unable to harvest at all due to this violence that the Israeli government allows and abets.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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May this moment of relief be the inspiration to recommit to the holy work of ensuring justice and freedom for all who live between the river and the sea.
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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We await the world that the Talmudic blessing refers to: The world to come, when all people will enjoy a world with no war, no starvation, no illness; when swords are beaten into ploughshares, and the nations of the world will study war no more. It is on us to work for and realize that world.
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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As Israeli and Palestinian captives are released, we witness reunions that feel like resurrection. Every life returned is a blessing. And we remember those who will not return.
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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