As Jews around the world complete and begin anew the annual reading of our sacred Torah, we will encounter the creation story with its words that have inspired human beings over millennia to treat each other with kindness and respect: “God created humankind in God’s own image”.
We find these words entirely incompatible with Donald Trump’s concept of the human person and the human body. He has denigrated people by race, by nationality, by their gender and by their most intimate, personal challenges. His callous descriptions of uninvited physical contact and even sexual assault offend our understanding of appropriate relationships between human beings.
Judaism teaches that a person's utterance of words is in fact a powerful deed. Humiliating someone, even privately, and especially publicly, is a serious form of emotional violence that causes tangible harm and is therefore forbidden by our faith. Consequently, we find Donald Trump’s denigration of so many people and groups to be an ongoing assault he perpetually carries out before the entire world. He does this recklessly in the name of our society. As women rabbis and as Jewish leaders in the most sacred and joyous season of our year, we say “not in our names”.
We speak as individuals, as women, as rabbis, as teachers and as role models to young people. We condemn Donald Trump’s behavior and words because they demean women and men, republicans and democrats, Americans and our friends and allies around the world, and people of every race, nationality and religion. Trump’s toxic words erode the integrity of our political institutions, our civic traditions and the customs of civility in public discourse upon which we all rely for our safety and stability.
Jewish experience teaches the immense power of communal traditions that uphold the sacred value of every human being. Tragically, Jewish history has also taught us how rapidly even the most civil societies can spiral into chaos if such values and practices are betrayed. In this most sacred of Jewish seasons, we commit ourselves to working with our fellow Americans and people of good will around the world,and of every faith, nationality and background, to restore and uphold these civic traditions and to strengthen them wherever we can through acts of loving-kindness, respect and humility.
The rabbis listed below are signing in their personal, individual capacity and not on behalf of any organization with which they may be affiliated.
(Signatures as of October 23, 2016 1.28 PM Eastern)
1 | Rabbi Julie Schonfeld |
2 | Rabbi Amy Eilberg |
3 | Rabbi Sally Priesand |
4 | Rabbi Andrea Merow |
5 | Rabbi Laura Gold |
6 | Rabbi Suzanne Brody |
7 | Rabbi Sharon Litwin |
8 | Rabbi Amy W Katz |
9 | Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder |
10 | Rabbi Myriam Klotz |
11 | Rabbi Rachel Kobrin |
12 | Rabbi Julie Wolkoff |
13 | Rabbi Rachel Silverman |
14 | Rabbi Paula Jayne Winnig |
15 | Rabbi Pamela Barmash |
16 | Rabbi Elana Kanter |
17 | Rabbi Gail Labovitz |
18 | Rabbi Beth H Klafter |
19 | Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus |
20 | Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson |
21 | Rabbi Amy Roth |
22 | Rabbi Jan Uhrbach |
23 | Rabbi Ilana Foss |
24 | Rabbi Jessica Wainer |
25 | Rabbi Susan Grossman |
26 | Rabbi Lauren Cohn |
27 | Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin |
28 | Rabbi Rachel Rembrandt |
29 | Rabbi Margot Stein |
30 | Rabbi Leslie Schotz |
31 | Rabbi Aliza Berk |
32 | Rabbi Yvonne Strassmann |
33 | Rabbi Eliana Falk |
34 | Rabbi Toba Schaller |
35 | Rabbi Susan Abramson |
36 | Rabbi Joan S Friedman |
37 | Rabbi Esther Reed |
38 | Rabbi Debra Cantor |
39 | Rabbi Carla Howard |
40 | Rabbi Sarah A Cohen |
41 | Rabbi Alexandria Shuval-Weiner |
42 | Rabbi Corie Yutkin |
43 | Rabbi Margaret J Meyer |
44 | Rabbi Abby Cohen |
45 | Rabbi Marci Bellows |
46 | Rabbi Elizabeth Richman |
47 | Rabbi Cheryl Peretz |
48 | Rabbi Jill Zimmerman |
49 | Rabbi Jill Borodin |
50 | Rabbi Laura Schwartz Harari |
51 | Rabbi Carie Carter |
52 | Rabbi Ruth Adar |
53 | Rabbi Heather Altman |
54 | Rabbi Jill Jacobs |
55 | Rabbi iah pillsbury |
56 | Rabbi Julie K Gordon |
57 | Rabbi Kim Geringer |
58 | Rabbi Sarah Marion |
59 | Rabbi Ita Paskind |
60 | Rabbi Judith Beiner |
61 | Rabbi Stephanie Dickstein |
62 | Rabbi Sharon Barr Skolnik |
63 | Rabbi Rachel Adler |
64 | Rabbi Edythe Mencher |
65 | Rabbi Kim Blumenthal |
66 | Rabbi Lauren Berkun |
67 | Rabbi Sue Fendrick |
68 | Rabbi Lauren Cohn |
69 | Rabbi Heidi Coretz |
70 | Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt |
71 | Rabbi Avis Miller |
72 | Rabbi Penina Alexander |
73 | Rabbi Lisa Sari Bellows |
74 | Rabbi Francine Roston |
75 | Rabbi Yael Ridberg |
76 | Rabbi Jaymee Alpert |
77 | Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg |
78 | Rabbi B Elka Abrahamson |
79 | Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell |
80 | Rabbi Molly Karp |
81 | Rabbi Claudia Kreiman |
82 | Rabbi Julia Andelman |
83 | Rabbi Abigail Treu |
84 | Rabbi Kerrith Rosenbaum |
85 | Rabbi Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik |
86 | Rabbi Jan Caryl Kaufman |
87 | Rabbi Abbi Sharofsky |
88 | Rabbi Paula Mack Drill |
89 | Rabbi Rachel Bat-Or |
90 | Rabbi Lilly Kaufman |
91 | Rabbi Debra Goldstein |
92 | Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr |
93 | Rabbi Annie Belford |
94 | Rabbi Nina Bieber Feinstein |
95 | Rabbi Janet Bieber |
96 | Rabbi Julie S Schwartz |
97 | Rabbi Renee Goldberg Edelman |
98 | Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu |
99 | Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum |
100 | Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay |
101 | Rabbi Joy Levitt |
102 | Rabbi Dusty Klass |
103 | Rabbi Jodie Gordon |
104 | Rabbi Sarah Rubin |
105 | Rabbi Karen Sussan |
106 | Rabbi Alana Suskin |
107 | Rabbi Phyllis Berman |
108 | Rabbi Alysa Mendelskn Graf |
109 | Rabbi Robin Nafshi |
110 | Rabbi Nancy Flam |
111 | Rabbi Deborah Waxman |
112 | Rabbi Nicole Roberts |
113 | Rabbi Raquel Kosovske |
114 | Rabbi Kim Ettlinger |
115 | Rabbi Michele Lenke |
116 | Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler |
117 | Rabbi Anne Ebersman |
118 | Rabbi Elianna Yolkut |
119 | Rabbi Idit Solomon |
120 | Rabbi Elyse Winick |
121 | Rabbi Lori Koffman |
122 | Rabbi Eve Posen |
123 | Rabbi Audrey Pollack |
124 | Rabbi Arielle Hanien |
125 | Rabbi Dahlia Kronish |
126 | Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann |
127 | Rabbi Sara Adler |
128 | Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin |
129 | Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso |
130 | Rabbi Lynn Liberman |
131 | Rabbi Rebecca Ben-Gideon |
132 | Rabbi Audrey Marcus Berkman |
133 | Rabbi Charni Flame Selch |
134 | Rabbi Lisa Gelber |
135 | Rabbi Lynnda Targan |
136 | Rabbi Michal Loving |
137 | Rabbi Sharon Brous |
138 | Rabbi Andrea London |
139 | Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh |
140 | Rabbi Jessica Lott |
141 | Rabbi Pamela Wax |
142 | Rabbi Lori Schulman |
143 | Rabbi Jessica Barolsky |
144 | Rabbi Laura Novak Winer |
145 | Rabbi Yael Splansky |
146 | Rabbi Susan Leider |
147 | Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz |
148 | Rabbi Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater |
149 | Rabbi Anne Brener |
150 | Rabbi Margot Meitner |
151 | Rabbi Suzanne Singer |
152 | Rabbi Jessica Gross |
153 | Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman |
154 | Rabbi Janet Marder |
155 | Rabbi Cherie Koller-Fox |
156 | Rabbi Jordie Gerson |
157 | Rabbi Rachel Weiss |
158 | Rabbi Holly Cohn |
159 | Rabbi Laura Geller |
160 | Rabbi Sarah Reines |
161 | Rabbi Suri Friedman |
162 | Rabbi Susan Silverman |
163 | Rabbi Michelle Pearlman |
164 | Rabbi Deborah Prinz |
165 | Rabbi Elyse Wechterman |
166 | Rabbi Nancy fuchs kreimer |
167 | Rabbi Debra Orenstein |
168 | Rabbi Lisa Tzur |
169 | Rabbi Amber Powers |
170 | Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld |
171 | Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell |
172 | Rabbi Glynis Conyer |
173 | Rabbi Shoshana Dworsky |
174 | Rabbi Yaffa-Shira Sultan |
175 | Rabbi Nina Mandel |
176 | Rabbi Melissa B Simon |
177 | Rabbi Sandy Bogin |
178 | Rabbi Linda Shriner-Cahn |
179 | Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster |
180 | Rabbi Kate Palley |
181 | Rabbi Rachel Cowan |
182 | Rabbi Sandy Sasso |
183 | Rabbi Debra Kolodny |
184 | Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi |
185 | Rabbi Aviva Fellman |
186 | Rabbi Lina Zerbarini |
187 | Rabbi Sarah Freidson |
188 | Rabbi Lisa Greeme |
189 | Rabbi Julie Pfau |
190 | Rabbi Dina Shargel |
191 | Rabbi Adina Lewittes |
192 | Rabbi Lia Bass |
193 | Rabbi Felicia Sol |
194 | Rabbi Hannah Greenstein |
195 | Rabbi Jane Kanarek |
196 | Rabbi Halina Rubinstein |
197 | Rabbi Jodie Siff |
198 | Rabbi Elisa Goldberg |
199 | Rabbi Jen Schlosberg |
200 | Rabbi Ayelet Cohen |
201 | Rabbi Fredi Cooper |
202 | Rabbi Myriam Klotz |
203 | Rabbi Rabba Ramie Smith |
204 | Rabbi Tamar Grimm |
205 | Rabbi Jill Cozen-Harel |
206 | Rabbi Chai Levy |
207 | Rabbi Laurie Levy |
208 | Rabbi Navah Levine |
209 | Rabbi Jill Hammer |
210 | Rabbi Dayle Friedman |
211 | Rabbi Linda Potemken |
212 | Rabbi JudiAhavah DelBourgo |
213 | Rabbi Shaina Bacharach |
214 | Rabbi Ariella Rosen |
215 | Rabbi Judy Shanks |
216 | Rabbi Janet Ozur Bass |
217 | Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris |
218 | Rabbi Deborah Zecher |
219 | Rabbi Nicki Greninger |
220 | Rabbi Sara Sapadin |
221 | Rabbi Darah Lerner |
222 | Rabbi Kate Speizer |
223 | Rabbi Ashley Berns-Chafetz |
224 | Rabbi Shoshana Leis |
225 | Rabbi Vicki Axe |
226 | Rabbi Shana Mackler |
227 | Rabbi Ilene Harkavy Haigh |
228 | Rabbi Margaret Frisch Klein |
229 | Rabbi Elizabeth Dunsker |
230 | Rabbi Lori Shaller |
231 | Rabbi Rhonda Shapiro-Rieser |
232 | Rabbi Yael Rapport |
233 | Rabbi Aviva Bass |
234 | Rabbi Sue Mauer Morningstar |
235 | Rabbi Rabbah Arlene Berger |
236 | Rabbi Deborah Goldmann |
237 | Rabbi Beth Janus |
238 | Rabbi Judith B Edelstein |
239 | Rabbi Peg Kershenbaum |
240 | Rabbi Ziona Zelazo |
241 | Rabbi Sarah Weissman |
242 | Rabbi Maralee Gordon |
243 | Rabbi Jill Hackell |
244 | Rabbi Ariana Silverman |
245 | Rabbi Malka Packer |
246 | Rabbi Dena Klein |
247 | Rabbi Rebecca Shinder |
248 | Rabbi Rona Matlow |
249 | Rabbi Sarah Meytin |
250 | Rabbi Rabba Ramie Smith |
251 | Rabbi Rachel Timoner |
252 | Rabbi Michele Medwin |
253 | Rabbi Randy Kafka |
254 | Rabbi Lisa Izes |
255 | Rabbi Eliana Jacobowitz |
256 | Rabbi Heidi Hoover |
257 | Rabbi Monique Mayer |
258 | Rabbi Dara Frimmer |
259 | Rabbi Shira Shazeer |
260 | Rabbi Miriam C Philips |
261 | Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer |
262 | Rabbi Helen Freeman |
263 | Rabbi Sharon Stiefel |
264 | Rabbi Stacy Friedman |
265 | Rabbi Diane Elliot |
266 | Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp |
267 | Rabbi Margie Klein Ronkin |
268 | Rabbi Marisa Elana James |
269 | Rabbi Eve Rudin Kleinman |
270 | Rabbi Reba Carmel |
271 | Rabbi Barbara Block |
272 | Rabbi Jordana Chernow |
273 | Rabbi Cindy Enger |
274 | Rabbi Alison Adler |
275 | Rabbi Allison Berry |
276 | Rabbi Shayna Rhodes |
277 | Rabbi Emily Losben-Ostrov |
278 | Rabbi Lara Regev |
279 | Rabbi Ilene Schneider |
280 | Rabbi Susan Shankman |
281 | Rabbi Elisa Koppel |
282 | Rabbi Shoshana Leis |
283 | Rabbi Sydney Mintz |
284 | Rabbi Alyson Solomon |
285 | Rabbi Rachel Miller Solomin |
286 | Rabbi Abby Michaleski |
287 | Rabbi Jordana Schuster Battis |
288 | Rabbi Deborah Schloss |
289 | Rabbi Sara Metz |
290 | Rabbi Beth Kalisch |
291 | Rabbi Beth Naditch |
292 | Rabbi Miriam T Spitzer |
293 | Rabbi Irit Shillor |
294 | Rabbi Rabba Sara Hurwitz |
295 | Rabbi Stacy Rigler |
296 | Rabbi Sara Zacharia |
297 | Rabbi Alissa Miller |
298 | Rabbi Cantor Robbi Sherwin |
299 | Rabbi Elyse Frishman |
300 | Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber |
301 | Rabbi Yael Hammerman |
302 | Rabbi Diane Cohen |
303 | Rabbi Avivah Erlick BCC |
304 | Rabbi Leslie Bergson |
305 | Rabbi Jessica Lenza |
306 | Rabbi Debbie Israel |
307 | Rabbi Miriam Midlarsky Lichtenfeld |
308 | Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor |
309 | Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg |
310 | Rabbi Janice Pollack Mehring |
311 | Rabbi Batshir Torchio |
312 | Rabbi Robin Podolsky |
313 | Rabbi Nicole Auerbach |
314 | Rabbi Amy Cohen |
315 | Rabbi Cecelia Beyer |
316 | Rabbi Osnat Margalith |
317 | Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein |
318 | Rabbi Mona Alfi |
319 | Rabbi Meredith Cahn |
320 | Rabbi Sara Mason-Barkin |
321 | Rabbi Cecilia Herzfeld-Stern |
322 | Rabbi Shira Wallach |
323 | Rabbi Lynne Goldsmith |
324 | Rabbi Devorah Marcus |
325 | Rabbi Barat Ellman |
326 | Rabbi Sari Laufer |
327 | Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller |
328 | Rabbi Diana Fersko |
329 | Rabbi Alanna Sklover |
330 | Rabbi Sarah Mack |
331 | Rabbi Jessica Rosenthal |
332 | Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick |
333 | Rabbi Anne Persin |
334 | Rabbi Debra Dressler |
335 | Rabbi Yocheved Mintz |
336 | Rabbi Rona Shapiro |
337 | Rabbi Yisraela Tubman |
338 | Rabbi Annie Lewis |
339 | Rabbi Eve Ben-Ora |
340 | Rabbi Cathy Nemiroff |
341 | Rabbi Serena Fujita |
342 | Rabbi Karen Thomashow |
343 | Rabbi Marci Jacobs Aronchick |
344 | Rabbi Ellen Lippmann |
345 | Rabbi Paulette Posner |
346 | Rabbi Miriam Farber Wajnberg |
347 | Rabbi Laurie Hahn Tapper |
348 | Rabbi Barbara Penzner |
349 | Rabbi Lisa Bock |
350 | Rabbi Erica Asch |
351 | Rabbi Shelley Kovar Becker |
352 | Rabbi Leah Rachel Berkowitz |
353 | Rabbi Sarah Hronsky |
354 | Rabbi Ellen Greenspan |
355 | Rabbi Rita Hertzberg |
356 | Rabbi Ellen Pildis |
357 | Rabbi Aderet Drucker |
358 | Rabbi Amy Wallk Katz |
359 | Rabbi Elyse Goldstein |
360 | Rabbi Jennifer Frenkel |
361 | Rabbi Dr Analia Bortz |
362 | Rabbi Lisa Delson |
363 | Rabbi Raachel Jurovics |
364 | Rabbi Laura Owens |
365 | Rabbi Valerie Cohen |
366 | Rabbi Sandra Cohen |
367 | Rabbi Eva Robbins |
368 | Rabbi Miriyam Glazer |
369 | Rabbi Lynn Brody Slome |
370 | Rabbi Amy Bernstein |
371 | Rabbi Dr Edith Meyerson |
372 | Rabbi Ruth Gais |
373 | Rabbi Rebecca Shinder |
374 | Rabbi Jennifer Goldsmith |
375 | Rabbi Leslie Kahn |
376 | Rabbi Sheila Goloboy |
377 | Rabbi Katy Z Allen |
378 | Rabbi Jennifer Singer |
379 | Rabbi Robin Foonberg |
380 | Rabbi Jo Merrick |
381 | Rabbi Leora Kaye |
382 | Rabbi Alexis Pinsky |
383 | Rabbi Jamie Korngold |
384 | Rabbi Janie Grackin |
385 | Rabbi Birdie Becker |
386 | Rabbi Erin Hirsh |
387 | Rabbi Deborah A Hirsch |
388 | Rabbi Susan Landau |
389 | Rabbi Ana Bonnheim |
390 | Rabbi Karen Fox |
391 | Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah |
392 | Rabbi Lori Ayela Wynters |
393 | Rabbi Linda Joseph |
394 | Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill |
395 | Rabbi Jocee Hudson |
396 | Rabbi Karen Bodney Halasz |
397 | Rabbi Nancy Cohen |
398 | Rabbi Marion Shulevitz |
399 | Rabbi Lynn Goldstein |
400 | Rabbi Mira Wasserman |
401 | Rabbi Erin Mason |
402 | Rabbi Karen Strok |
403 | Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder |
404 | Rabbi Tracy Nathan |
405 | Rabbi Ariel J. Friedlander |
406 | Rabbi Dina Rosenberg |
407 | Rabbi Deborah Zecher |