Jewish Clergy and NYC Elected Officials Advocate for Housing Justice

Austin Tang — Fri, 05 May 2023 15:12:17 +0000

Speaker Adrienne Adams, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Comptroller Brad Lander and other elected leaders will join event marking the Jewish holiday of Pesach Sheni

NEW YORK – On Thursday May 4 at 6 p.m. ET, Jewish leaders from Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice will host New York City elected officials for “Pesach Sheni Tisch for Housing Justice.” To celebrate the little-known Jewish holiday of Pesach Sheni, the group will invite speakers to lead readings, share a holiday meal, and engage in advocacy for housing justice. Elected leaders including Comptroller Brad Lander, Councilmember Alexa Avilés, Speaker Adrienne Adams, and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine will be in attendance for the celebration, along with community leaders including Pastor Gil Monrose and Rabbi Abby Stein.

The event is organized by Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice as part of its inaugural Bayit campaign focused on supporting unhoused individuals. Tirdof is a partnership between T’ruah: A Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ Community), which unites Jewish clergy to organize with neighbors and allies for a New York City with freedom, opportunity, and dignity for all.

WHAT: Pesach Sheni Tisch for Housing Justice

WHERE: SAJ — Judaism That Stands for All (15 W 86th St, New York, NY 10024)

WHEN: Thursday, May 4, 6 p.m. Eastern

WHO: Community organizers and Jewish faith leaders, including:

Adrienne Adams, Speaker of the New York City Council
Alexa Avilés, New York City Council Member
Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller
Mark Levine, Manhattan Borough President
Members of Tirdof: New York Clergy for Justice
Pastor Gil Monrose, executive director, NYC Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships
Rabbi Abby Stein, rabbi, author, and activist
Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, Rabbi of SAJ – Judaism That Stands for All

Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice is a project of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ Community).

About T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights mobilizes a network of more than 2,300 rabbis and cantors from all streams of Judaism that, together with the Jewish community, act on the Jewish imperative to respect and advance the human rights of all people. Grounded in Torah and our Jewish historical experience and guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we call upon Jews to assert Jewish values by raising our voices and taking concrete steps to protect and expand human rights in North America, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories.

About Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Community:

JFREJ Community fights to empower communities that face state violence, economic inequity, and structural oppression to govern the resources and systems that affect their lives. JFREJ Community is committed to building a vibrant Jewish Left working for social justice in New York City. JFREJ Community’s sister organization, JFREJ Action, is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us, free from all forms of racist violence.

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Passover or Pesach (/ˈpɛsɑːx, ˈpeɪsɑːx/; from Hebrew פֶּסַח Pesah, Pesakh),

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is an importantbiblically derived Jewish festival.

The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. According to standard biblical chronology, this event would have taken at about 1300 BCE (AM 2450).
Passover commences on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan and lasts for either seven days (inIsrael) or eight days (in the diaspora). In Judaism, a day commences at dusk and lasts until the following dusk, thus the first day of Passover only begins after dusk of the 14th of Nisan and ends at dusk of the 15th day of the month of Nisan. The rituals unique to the Passover celebrations commence with the Passover Seder when the 15th of Nisan has begun. In the Northern Hemisphere Passover takes place in spring as the Torah prescribes it: “in the month of [the] spring” (בחדש האביב Exodus 23:15). It is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays.
In the narrative of the Exodus, the Bible tells that God helped the Children of Israel escape from their slavery in Egypt by inflicting ten plagues upon the ancient Egyptians before the Pharaoh would release his Israelite slaves; the tenth and worst of the plagues was the death of the Egyptian first-born.
The Israelites were instructed to mark the doorposts of their homes with the blood of a slaughtered spring lamb and, upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord knew to pass over the first-born in these homes, hence the English name of the holiday.
When the Pharaoh freed the Israelites, it is said that they left in such a hurry that they could not wait for bread dough to rise (leaven). In commemoration, for the duration of Passover no leavened bread is eaten, for which reason Passover was called the feast of unleavened bread in the Torah or Old Testament. Thus Matzo (flat unleavened bread) is eaten during Passover and it is a tradition of the holiday.
Historically, together with Shavuot (“Pentecost”) and Sukkot (“Tabernacles”), Passover is one of the three pilgrimage festivals (Shalosh Regalim) during which the entire population of the kingdom of Judah made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem Samaritans still make this pilgrimage to Mount Gerizim, but only men participate in public worship.

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Passover or Pesach (/ˈpɛsɑːx, ˈpeɪsɑːx/; from Hebrew פֶּסַח Pesah, Pesakh),