“The liberal Zionist vision of Israel has never, for a moment, been the reality of the Jewish state. There’s a human cost to that political commitment, and it comes on the backs of Palestinians" - R4C Founding Director @alissashira.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

New @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast episode about our Yizkor on Yom Kippur, dedicated to the memory fo R' Arthur Waskow z"l The work continues to build liberatory Judaism as part of our sacred covenant with the future. jewishcurrents.org/yizkor-in-th...

The Talmud teaches: “One who sees their friend after twelve months says, Blessed are You… Who revives the dead.”

Update: we blew this fundraising goal out of the water! $218,000 and counting!!!

✡️ Rabbis and Jewish clergy were arrested 👮 earlier this evening as thousands from the Jewish community united on a holy day calling for an end to the war 🛑 culminating in civil disobedience that blocked the Brooklyn Bridge. @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social 👏 Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPUt37x...

The JewsforFoodAidforPeopleInGaza campaing is so so so close to reaching the $180,000 goal for our High Holiday Tzedakah campaign before Yom Kippur begins. If you haven't yet please give now! givebutter.com/FoodAidTzeda...

Let the past year and its curses end, let the new year and it's blessings begin. May 5786 see the end of the genocide in Gaza and the beginning of liberation.

We are here to support everyone who wants one, to have a meaningful High Holidays experience. Our Open Communities directory lists dozens of life-affirming Jewish communities eager to warmly welcome you exactly as you are: in your despair, grief, fear, rage, and love. www.opencommunities.info

500 Jews and people of conscience are taking a stand in the pouring rain for life and freedom. Our tradition denounces these horrors and demands we cry out against them. Every human being is created B’tselem Elohim, in the divine image. If there is a hungry person, one must feed them. #NotInOurName

Rabbi Rebecca Zimmerman Hornstein and Rabbi Aron Wander declare “We will make the choice every day to not close our hearts to the enormity of the horror.” “We are not here today because we all agree on everything…But we do agree that our tradition teaches the infinite value of sacred life.”

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of Jews and allies have gathered outside the Israeli Consulate in Boston to decry the ongoing starvation of Gaza. Our Jewish values compel us to demand a ceasefire. To demand aid be allowed into Gaza. To demand our government stop supporting genocide. #JewsSayNoMore

Join us this Thursday, 8/14 at 5:30pm in downtown Boston for a mass mobilization. No flags. Details at innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more Whoever can protest our people’s actions, and doesn’t, is responsible for them. (Shabbat 54B)

In Jewish time, we are bein hametzarim, between the narrow places. A three week period of communal mourning, a time of reflection and grief during which we reflect on hardship and we yearn for joy and redemption.

The Global Shavuot Teach-In has begun! Now ongoing until 2pm eastern Monday! Amazing learning hour after hour -- check out the schedule and register here: rabbis4ceasefire.com/shavuot2025/

We are just a few hundred signers away from hitting our initial goal of 18,000 signers before Shabbat! Please share to Jews in your life who want to see an end to the starvation of people in Gaza. They'll be joining over 600 rabbis and 80+ Jewish orgs around the globe! foodaidforgaza.org

Join @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social, @acjna.bsky.social and many incredible partner organizations (including us) on June 1st and 2nd for a 26-hour-long Shavuot teach-in. Check out the full schedule of presentations and register at rabbis4ceasefire.com/shavuot2025

Every life is a universe. Every murder is a desecration of the divine. We are outraged at the horrifying murder of two people outside the Capitol Jewish Museum last night. May the family and friends of Yaron and Sarah be comforted along with all those who mourn.

NEW: Our 5785 Passover supplements compiled by R4C members! The supplements do not shy away from the painful contradictions while also showing deep reverence for tradition. It embodies the liberatory Judaism we are building. Please consider weaving these into your haggadah this year!

Moses begged Pharoah: Let Our People Go! This year as students are abducted by ICE in the US and Palestinians are killed and forced off their land by Israel we say: Let Our People Stay! Let Our People Be Free! Observe Passover with us! More Haggadah supplements coming tomorrow!

Blessings on @sanders.senate.gov head for the powerful speech he just gave on the Senate floor to stop the sale of weapons to Israel. Bombs that will be used to murder and destroy as all humanitarian aid is being blocked to the people of Gaza.

Rabbis to Senate HELP Committee Members: How Dare You Instrumentalize Concern for Jewish Safety to Shield Israel from Accountability In response to the Senate HELP Committee hearing today. Four reasons we reject the basic premise 🧵

Leveling an entire building and murdering dozens to kill one person must be part of this story. Out tolerance for collective punishment as a society is horrifying. We are being ruled by soulless idiots.

Grateful for CFP stepping up to call out Christian Zionism and Christian Nationalism!

Last night 1000+ Jews stood outside of ICE headquarters to call for the return of Mahmoud Khalil, the end of deportations, and the end to attacks on the democracy we need to keep Jews and everyone safe. You can listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Links in reply.

“Over a thousand US Jews outside ICE headquarters in NYC, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and protesting the Trump-Musk deportation agenda. We are Jews for freedom and democracy saying #FreeMahmoud !” Organized by @ifnotnowmovement.org @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social 🧵

TONIGHT in NYC - 6 pm Foley Square. Join us!

Honest and haunting piece in @thenation.com by @edgeofsports.bsky.social with powerful words from our own @alissashira.bsky.social: "Woe to the Jewish institutions, like the Anti-Defamation League, that continue to kiss his ring, playing Russian roulette with both Jewish and Palestinian lives.”

Starting tomorrow an 8 week course on Diasporism(s) with two of our rabbis, @rabbiandykahn.com and @alissashira.bsky.social, delves into the diverse ways Jewish thought has grappled with concepts of belonging, identity, & collective obligation. Register here: www.judaismunbound.com/2025-courses...

There's still time to contribute to our Purim fundraiser! Please do! www.givegab.com/campaigns/pu...

Today we invoke the true Queen Esther and stand up to the forces who would use Jewish safety as a pretext to shut down legal, peaceful student protests, to detain an expecting father a and green card holder, to suppress the movement for Palestinian liberation, and to destroy higher education.

The ADL is proudly and openly allied with antisemites and fascists who are taking an axe to our democracy and hurting all of us. Full stop.

Trump's Executive Order in action. They are revoking his green card with complete disregard for the law. We must mobilize powerfully in his defense to demonstrate we won't cower and we will defend democracy and rights. We demand he be released immediately!

As Purim approaches, let's unmask the deviousness of the Heritage Foundation's addendum to Project 2025, called Project Esther after the heroine in the Purim story. It of course feigns concern for Jews to erode all of our rights -- we won't be fooled! www.jta.org/2025/03/04/i...

See our new statement as the ceasefire collapses during Ramadan and Purim: rabbis4ceasefire.com/wp-content/u...

We are watching and paying attention to this thread and this hearing -- we are in a very scary place when it comes to anti-Jewish hatred. We need to heighten our critical thinking and compassion. Our rights and our lives at stake by those that seek to redefine antisemitism to defend the Israeli govt

Yesterday, hundreds of Jews gathered outside of the ADL conference in Midtown Manhattan to show that the ADL does NOT speak for us– and is actively putting us in danger.

The ADL is having their annual conference today in NYC and we have a message we need to make sure they hear -- join us at 5:15 pm at Bella Abzug park for a rally and ritual to fortify ourselves for the fights ahead!

Join us and @ifnotnowmovement.org and @jfrejnyc.bsky.social tomorrow to shout down those that risk our safety and freedoms for their personal gain. LOCATION: Bella Abzug Park. Enter on 34th Street. Bring a tallit if you have one! ASL interpretation will be provided.

Humanitarian aid is not a bargaining chip. Denying supplies people need to live is collective punishment and a war crime.

In this time of rising authoritarianism, and the ADL’s embrace of it, we gather together as the Jewish community we need, refusing to cower in fear. Join us for a community and ritual March 3, 5:15 pm in Midtown Manhattan (exact location to come)

So proud to be in community with folks organizing. I just donated to @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social and hope other culturally Christian folks will join me in saying #saynotoethnicleansing saynotoethniccleansing.org

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

Proud to have joined over 350 rabbis (and counting) to help make this simple statement in today's @nytimes

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org