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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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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"You won't divide us from our neighbors."
NYC Jewish communities repudiate the ADL's blatant Islamophobia: You won't divide us from our neighbors.
Add your organizaiton: bit.ly/ADLWontDivideUS
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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!
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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!
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Rabbis for Ceasefire Statement on Zohran Mamadani becoming NYC’s Next Mayor
November 5, 2025/ 18 Cheshvan 5786

Blessed is the Source of Life who is good and bestows good.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“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
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Anti-Mamdani Letter Draws Support from Liberal Rabbinate
The letter revealed a split between liberal rabbis backing the mayoral nominee and those opposing him over his positions on Israel.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Deporting Solidarity: An Avera of the Soil and Spirit

זִרְע֨וּ לָכֶ֤ם לִצְדָקָה֙ קִצְר֣וּ לְפִי־חֶ֔סֶד נִ֥ירוּ לָכֶ֖ם נִ֑יר וְעֵת֙ לִדְר֣וֹשׁ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֔ה עַד־יָב֕וֹא וְיֹרֶ֥ה צֶ֖דֶק לָכֶֽם׃

Sow righteousness for yourselves; reap the fruits of goodness; plough for yourselves fresh ground of seeking the Divine, So that you may obtain a teacher of righteousness.
- Hosea 10:12
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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...
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Yizkor in the Streets
A discussion with Rabbis for Ceasefire organizers on adapting our sacred rituals to build a Judaism beyond Zionism.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The Talmud teaches: “One who sees their friend after twelve months says, Blessed are You… Who revives the dead.”
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Update: we blew this fundraising goal out of the water! $218,000 and counting!!!
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Over 1,000 Rabbis and Jewish Peace Activists in Brooklyn Demand Gaza Ceasefire
Here in New York, more than 1,000 rabbis and Jewish peace activists led a protest Thursday demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to U.S. arms transfers to Israel. They gathered at Brookly...
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
✡️ 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...
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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...
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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
Two people stand together smiling, one holding a sign saying "Save a Life, Save a Whole World."A person stands facing backward with a shirt that says "Fascism, Now that's not Kosher! Equality and justice for all. If not now, when?"Two people stand holding signs saying "Let all you are hungry come and eat" and "Not in our name - No to starvation, yes to solidarity!"A person sits holding a sign saying "Jews Support Food for Gaza"
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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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.”
Two speakers, both Rabbis, stand in front of a sign saying "Trump: Jews Say No More"
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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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
Hundreds of people gather outside in Boston with a large banner saying Boston Jews Say Stop the War on GazaHundreds of people gather outside in front of banners saying "Netanyahu Stop Starving Gaza" and "Trump: Jews Say No More"
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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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)
Jews Say: No More
Statler Park, Boston
Thursday, August 14th 5:30 PM ET
Stop Starvation, Stop Ethnic Cleansing
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
During this period of communal grief our most pressing spiritual work is to end Israel’s siege of Gaza and affirm the dignity and beauty of Palestinian life. In the words of Hillel, if not NOW, when?
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
If you are a member of a synagogue or JCC or other local or national Jewish organization, NOW is the time to ensure that they are speaking out in ways big and small in their newsletters, events, or services.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
If you have been hesitant or fearful to speak out against the Israeli genocide – the time to speak is NOW. If you have been acting non-stop for 20 months the time to use your lessons learned and relationships you have built to grow our movement is NOW
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Trump and Netanyahu intend to erase Palestinians from Gaza – whether by sniper or drone or bomb or starvation or forced displacement. We must summon our strength and creativity to meet this moment.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In Jewish tradition, we find our way out of narrow places through conjuring a future of liberation and redemption. We have not earned the luxury of despair. Now is the time for rugged optimism.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a latest display of grotesque denial of Palestinian suffering, Netanyahu conjured the famed apathetic cruelty of Marie Antoinette when he reportedly said “let them eat Ben & Jerry’s for all I care.”
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is a cruel and calculated form of collective punishment that betrays the profound degree to which the Israeli government denies Palestinian humanity.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is 654 days into the Israeli government denying Palestinians in Gaza access to adequate food and clean water that has led to profound malnutrition, suffering, and death of Palestinians.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We do not use this word lightly. Palestinians forced into the camp won’t be allowed to leave and will likely be forcibly transferred out of Gaza at some point. This is ethnic cleansing, not ceasefire.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In addition to this cruelty, reports indicate Israel intends to use a temporary, 60-day ceasefire to build a concentration camp in Rafah.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Over 900 Palestinians in the past six weeks have been killed while attempting to retrieve food for their families at GHF distribution sites or waiting for supplements at barely functioning clinics.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
At this time we continue to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Instead, as starving people go to find food for their families, they are being shot dead by Israeli soldiers.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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/
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · 26/05/2025
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
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