Opposition to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has brought thousands of people into the streets of U.S. cities. Among them are the growing ranks of clergy who have wanted to do more than preach from the pulpit about the political forces they say are violating their most sacred values.
About 140 of those clergy — rabbis in particular — are converging on Washington, D.C., beginning Monday (Feb. 9), for a three-day National Jewish Clergy Convening hosted by T’ruah, the progressive Jewish human rights organization. The convening is intended to train rabbis to organize, strategize and, if needed, put their bodies on the line in defense of their values.
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