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sanctuary synagogues

Luis, 63, an immigrant from Honduras, is currently sheltering in place at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont. (Photo/Rachele S. Kanigel)
Posted inBay Area

From ICE detention to quarantine in an East Bay synagogue

Rachele Kanigel by Rachele Kanigel May 14, 2020May 18, 2020

Like most people in California, Luis is sheltering in place. He whiles away the hours listening to music on a Spanish-language radio station and scrolling through websites on an old, […]

Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Wash., is the only synagogue in the United States known to be sheltering an undocumented immigrant. (Photo/Rabbi Seth Goldstein)
Posted inU.S.

A Guatemalan asylum seeker is being sheltered in a Washington state synagogue

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales September 13, 2019September 13, 2019
Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf with the leader of a collective of midwives in Guatemala
Posted inOpinion

Guatemalan midwives taught me the meaning of moral courage

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf February 20, 2019February 20, 2019
a man being handcuffed at night
Posted inNews

Jewish woman hides Mexican mom from ICE in Southern California

by JTA March 16, 2018March 19, 2018
Rabbi Jessica Graf of Congregation Sherith Israel gave the invocation at a unity rally at S.F. City Hall, Aug. 25, 2017, ahead of planned far right rallies planned for the following day. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inNews

Sherith Israel becomes San Francisco’s first sanctuary synagogue

by Dan Pine March 12, 2018March 13, 2018
Debbie Coutant stands in a converted shower at Congregation Shir Hadash, which is readying to house an immigrant family under threat of deportation. (Photo/Rob Gloster)
Posted inNews

Los Gatos shul ready to become sanctuary synagogue

by Rob Gloster January 10, 2018March 19, 2018
a man being handcuffed at night
Posted inU.S., News

Reform movement urges synagogues to protect immigrants facing deportation

by JTA March 31, 2017March 19, 2018
Posted inBay Area, California, News

Sanctuary synagogues: another way to help refugees

max cherney by Max A. Cherney March 31, 2017August 2, 2019
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Posted inBay Area, Northern California, News

A ‘sanctuary synagogue’ in Sacramento

by J. Staff February 24, 2017March 12, 2018

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