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.
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By Jill Jacobs
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Culture Saving the World, One Jew at a Time
Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World By Rabbi Avraham Weiss Jewish Lights Publishing, 224 pages, $24.99. Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Jewish Community By Rabbi Marc Schneier Jewish Lights Publishing, 240 pages, $18.99. As a rabbi who has devoted her career to social and economic justice, I…
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Opinion Hiking the Minimum Wage Is Tzedakah at its Finest
Congress seems set to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. The House approved a minimum-wage hike in late January, and the Senate appears poised to follow suit. The Jewish community has stepped up to advocate for the proposed $2.10 minimum-wage increase, the first in almost 10 years. The Jewish Funds for Justice…
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Opinion Other People’s Money
As we move forward into the New Year, one thing that hasn’t changed along with our calendars is the fact that many municipal governments remain in a state of fiscal crisis. Desperate for new ways of raising revenue, cities are increasingly looking at legalized gambling as an attractive option for shoring up municipal coffers. In…
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Opinion Shelter the Displaced Among Us
On Monday, residents of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development appeared in federal court, charging the Chicago Housing Authority with violating international human rights standards prohibiting forced evictions. For the first time, human rights laws on displacement are being used to contest the eviction of public housing residents in the United States. Now on trial is…
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Opinion Who’s Afraid Of the Big, Bad Israel Debate?
Earlier this month a Torah commentary that I wrote for the Jewish Theological Seminary’s weekly student newsletter was rejected on the grounds that it included a critique of Israeli government policies. The decision by a member of the administration not to print the Torah commentary prompted the resignation of the student editor of the publication,…
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