"To target emergency medical vehicles is a cowardly act of hate and a chilling reminder of the rising tide of antisemitism in the UK." Sharing the important words of our Meretz UK colleague, @josharonson1.bsky.social, who spoke to Israel's Kan TV about the arson attack against Hatzola ambulances.

Now on our YouTube channel if you missed it live last week: "The US and Israel War on Iran: Global, Regional, Local, and Cultural Perspectives", with Barbara Slavin, @mauriciolapchik.bsky.social, and Galeet Dardashti, moderated by our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVlX...

Heartsick over yet another attack on a synagogue, this time Temple Israel in Michigan. I’m so relieved the community members, synagogue staff, teachers, and children present are safe, and horrified by the way our places of worship and Jewish community are targeted again and again.

Our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social, moderated a scintillating and diverse panel - “Allyship in a Post-October 7 World: How to build Jewish-Inclusive Coalitions for the Sake of Democracy”, with Evan Wolfson, Shifra Sered, Shaul Magid, and Nancy Kaufman. Photo credit: @giligetz.bsky.social

"‪Israeli annexation of the West Bank is here," our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social wrote last Friday ahead of our Wednesday, 2/18 webinar, "The West Bank 2026: An Inexorable Path to Annexation and Apartheid?" (registration at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...). www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

We are proud to support this protest against injustice - Weds. Feb. 11 at 1:30pm in DC (outside ICE Headquarters, 500 12th St SW), alongside our friends at @truahrabbis.bsky.social, @bendthearc.bsky.social, and dozens of other cosponsors. Up-to-date details can be found at truah.org/events/jews-...

The advancing Israeli bill is racist by design- mandating a death penalty only in cases involving Palestinian suspects in the West Bank and excluding altogether cases in which Israeli settlers kill Palestinians. Read about it: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Full statement: truah.org/press/a-jewi...

Our statement today on the recovery of Ran Gvili, z"l, which at long last brings to a close the Israeli hostage crisis. The statement is also on our website at www.progressiveisrael.org/partners-for....

Security and equality are for everyone! A Jewish–Arab solidarity demonstration in Sakhnin. “We must stop standing by. It’s time to stop the murders, protection rackets, organized crime, and the bloodshed. We stand together in a strong call to end the abandonment of Arab society! 📸 Gal Musenzon

THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 12:30pm ET webinar - "Political Motherhood as a Moral Force: Meet 'Mothers Against Violence - Israel'" Our panel will include: -Ketty Bar -Susan Feit -Iris Rappoport @yaelniv.bsky.social Our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social, will moderate. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Read the whole thread, please! Our communities are well-served when we hold all these pieces.

“Ensuring access to humanitarian aid is a legal obligation, not a discretionary choice.” Grateful for the moral clarity and dedication of these 18 organizations, many of whom we’ve featured and worked with at @partners4israel.bsky.social www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...

This "delegitimizes the Palestinian Authority at a moment when its credibility, capacity, and international support are essential." Proud to have signed this letter, together w/@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social, @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social, @truahrabbis.bsky.social, et al.

The "slamming" came from eight prominent liberal and progressive Jewish organizations, including @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social, yours truly @partners4israel.bsky.social, and @truahrabbis.bsky.social. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

"Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism does a disservice to combating actual Jew-hatred." Our joint letter w/@truahrabbis.bsky.social, Israelis for Peace, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social is at truah.org/wp-content/u... Additional criticism of ADL below www.commondreams.org/news/adl-mam...

"[The ADL's] approach to Mayor-elect Mamdani is disingenuous, counterproductive, and ultimately harmful to the cause of addressing antisemitism." A new letter from T'ruah, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @partners4israel.bsky.social, and Israelis for Peace. Read: buff.ly/rLKpd6v

Don't let'em fool you: Katz is STILL saying the plan is for the IDF is to introduce "garinei Nachal" - IDF units that have been repeatedly used in the West Bank to first establish settlements as a military deployment before those locations were "civilianized". www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

So Netanyahu, as he’s being investigated for war crimes internationally and corruption within Israel, can come to the US at Trump’s invitation — but 5 million+ Palestinians cannot?! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

THURSDAY, 12/18, 12:30pm ET An ongoing WB Settler campaign of intimidation, destruction, violence seeks to drive out Palestinians. With Israel's army and govt failing to provide security, it falls on courageous volunteers to provide a nonviolent human buffer. Join us: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In @us.theconversation.com, our board member, Prof. Joshua Shanes, discusses the ongoing Jewish tug-of-war between the traditional rabbinic interpretation of #Hanukkah and the more recent Zionist approach drawing on pre-rabbinic sources. #ChagSame'ach theconversation.com/hanukkah-cel...

This #Hanukkah event, taking place tomorrow, Tuesday 12/16, was planned well in advance. We feel today that it's an especially important opportunity to come together in community. You're warmly welcome to join us online at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This holiday of resilience, of hope and light in the darkness— I’m heartbroken, and I can (in the words of the latter-day psalmist L. Cohen) see the cracks where the light gets in. Holding it all, holding it gently.

This is not Judaism, this is not Torah. This is shameful. I’m grateful every day for my Muslim colleagues and friends.

ONLINE TUESDAY, 12/16, 6pm ET/3pm PT As we approach the end of a very difficult 2025, we invite you to gather with us to celebrate the 3rd night of Hanukkah. We'll light candles and nosh (BYO), learn with our board member, Prof Josh Shanes, and enjoy community! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

To invert the yellow hostage ribbon into a noose is… I don’t even have words. This is the worship of the power to dominate, to cause harm, to kill. Sickening.

"The only possible deal is for Netanyahu to take responsibility, admit guilt, leave politics and free the people and the state," rightly reacted Yair Golan, chair of the Labor-Meretz union, HaDemocratim. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

PM and criminal defendant Netanyahu is asking for a full pardon, but adamantly refusing to admit culpability for any crime. In doing so, he is displaying a "flagrant disregard for both Jewish ethics and the legal norms of Israel". Our full statement is at www.progressiveisrael.org/statement-ne...

Come for the hot takes on French colonial maneuvers, stay for the rabbi hands 🙌🏻 thanks for having me @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social!!

Join us - TODAY at 12pm NOON ET/9am Pacific Time! Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My latest in @haaretzcom.bsky.social Not 'hasbara failure' to seek justice for Palestinians sexually abused by IDF soldiers www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Netanyahu is simply making this up. Check out any poll over the last 2 years. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

We built an incredible bloc that passed resolutions ranging from support for liberal Jewish institutions within Israel, to a state commission of inquiry into October 7th, to the blockage of illegal settlement activity in Gaza and the West Bank. This is where most Diaspora Jews *are.*

We just prevented the World Zionist Organization from funding any Israeli settlement in Gaza. The Meretz-backed union at the World Zionist Congress ran this resolution, and I’m beyond proud of @partners4israel.bsky.social and @hatikvahslate.bsky.social right now! THIS is why we stay in the room.

Imagine having such a brittle and venomous worldview that you have this kind of reaction to the words “peace” and “diplomacy,” or go after my board member and THE Sabbath Queen. Get real.

Einav Zangauker and other hostage family members are facing a smear campaign backed by Netanyahu, who'd like them all to just disappear and stop calling for accountability via a state commission of inquiry to investigate the failures of October 7. We stand with #WeAreAllHostages. You're Not Alone!

How dare you not hope. There’s going to be years more of hurdles, and the end goal is not only to get the hostages home. People were going practically door to door in northern Gaza to spread the news because there’s no internet/WiFi there. Several people died of starvation in Gaza yesterday. 1/x

Plurality of Jewish Americans (48%) disapproves of Israeli government's military action in Gaza; 61% say it's committing war crimes there; 39% say it's committing a genocide; 59% say it's not doing enough to allow food in. Major new @washingtonpost.com poll. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I had just been reflecting with a colleague a few days ago about the shooting in Halle on Yom Kippur six years ago, and this morning arrived to lead services and heard the news of this terrible antisemitic attack in Manchester. Seeing the image of blood on Rabbi Walker’s kittel is chilling. No more.

WASHINGTON DC - THIS MORNING at 9am - as Netanyahu comes to the White House We'll meet up at the corner of 17th and Pennsylvania

Hosted by: @truahrabbis.bsky.social @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social Combatants for Peace @newisraelfund.bsky.social @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social Interact Israelis for Peace @giligetz.bsky.social Lab Shul Partners for Progressive Israel @mhughesrob.bsky.social

This guide is the result of a lot of careful research, soul-searching, and deep listening. This conversation is so painful for Jewish communities, and our discomfort can’t override the reality of what is happening in Gaza.

This kind of zero-sum thinking makes for good clickbait 🙄 but this is a historic moment for Palestinians AND Israelis. This recognition means an international commitment to an end to Hamas in power in Gaza, self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians alike, and human rights for all.

My former teacher R’ Avidan is no stranger to sudden arrest and police violence— he founded a small NGO called Yanshoof, dedicated to creating moral limits on Israel’s international arms sales. Bibi is afraid of the shofar, of a call to accountability? Clearly.

Today in Haaretz: there will be no successful movement for democracy in Israel without Palestinians— not just at the table, but at the center. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Netanyahu has abandoned the hostages, say hostage families, who vow to occupy the space in front of his residence and host daily mass rallies "until he fulfills the will of the people – the immediate return of all hostages and the end of the war." #BringThemAllHomeNow www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Is the UN a perfect body? Absolutely not. Is this a powerful step forward for international recognition of the rights of Palestinians and Israelis? ABSOLUTELY YES More on this from yours truly and Macron’s I-P Special Envoy Ofer Bronchtein here: youtu.be/6g5YD_si-G0?...

Once a month or 2, Life is a Sacred Text House of Study folx submit Ask the Rabbi qs --anything, the wild gamut of things -- & these days a *bunch* of us answer. It's so fun. w/@rabbibecky.bsky.social @ravmike.bsky.social @rabbimegan.bsky.social @mhughesrob.bsky.social, me + 3 more smarty pantses

NYC - TOMORROW, Sept. 11! Join us, our friends at @smolemunius.bsky.social, and others for this in-person (no livestream) conversation with peace and Arab-Jewish partnership champion, MK Ayman Odeh. Register: www.smolemunius.com/events/mk-ay...

Continuing to hold my breath with anxiety in the wake of yesterday’s strike in Doha. There’s no way forward except to seal a deal for a full hostage exchange and an end to military action in Gaza. The lives of civilians must be more valuable than this. #AllforAll #RightNow

By our board member, Sam Fleischacker, who writes: What could seem like low-level settler harassment in the West Bank is actually just the constant drumbeat of Jewish domination, a la Ben-Gvir, and "just as effective at ethnic cleansing as the war in Gaza". www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/27/o...