Contributed by: Ayelet Cohen, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The “Prayer for North American Jews on the 75th Anniversary of Israel’s Founding” was first published and disseminated from the website of T’ruah, via PDF here. . . .
Contributed by: Jill Jacobs, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
An invocation by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, offered at the opening dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations annual Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop, June 2019. . . .
Contributed by: T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Lev Meirowitz Nelson
On Tuesday, we go to the polls in a momentous election that for many of us has generated a combination of anxiety, excitement, fear, and confusion. We offer you this prayer, which you can recite this Shabbat, before you vote, or while you are waiting for returns. . . .
Contributed by: T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
“The wicked child asks: What does this work mean to you? Mah ha’avodah ha’zot lachem” (Exodus 12:26). I think about this question a great deal as a rabbi whose core work involves fighting modern-day slavery. I think about it when I talk to my children about what I do every day, when I call anti-trafficking activists and say, “What can rabbis do to support you?” or when I stand before Jewish audiences and urge them to put their energy behind this critical human rights issue. The answer must go deeper than simply saying, “We were slaves in Egypt once upon a time.” The memory of bitterness does not necessarily inspire action. What inspires me is not slavery but redemption. God could part the Sea of Reeds, but the Israelites could not truly be free until they had liberated themselves, after 40 years in the desert, from slavery. . . .
Contributed by: Ron Aigen, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for the welfare of Israel composed during the 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict. . . .
Contributed by: David W. Nelson (translation), Lawrence A. Hoffman, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for Israel which reserves the right to criticize its moral failings. . . .
Contributed by: T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Rabbi Edward Feld
This liturgy is based on the traditional public confession of sins on Yom Kippur and is meant to complement the existing al ḥet found in the maḥzor. This prayer written by Rabbi Ed Feld in 2007 for Yom Kippur 5768 was first published at the website of RHR-NA (now T’ruah). . . .
Contributed by: Anonymous, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
In the wake of the continued uprooting of fruit trees and human settlements in the Land of Israel, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights shared the following petitionary prayer. . . .
Contributed by: Joshua Boettiger, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
We are grateful to Rabbi Joshua Boettinger and Rabbis for Human Rights–North America (RHR-NA) for sharing the following petitionary prayer, A Misheberakh for Victims of Slavery. Originally published by RHR-NA on their website in 2009, the prayer attends to the desperate need to eradicate all forms of slavery that persist today, especially in advance of the holiday celebrating our Z’man Cheruteinu, the season of our freedom, every Spring, every Pesaḥ. . . .