Rabbi's arrested over Muslim travel ban protest

Rabbis affiliated with T’ruah were arrested during a demonstration in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower on Monday.

Rabbi's arrested over Muslim travel ban protest

World Bulletin / News Desk

Nearly 200 people, including dozens of rabbis and rabbinical students, had come together to protest the Muslim travel ban that saw the arrest of nearly twenty Rabbi's after blocking a street outside President Donald Trump's former home, Trump Tower on Monday

Nineteen rabbis and rabbinical students connected with the liberal Jewish group, T’ruah, were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after deliberately blocking traffic to pray after a march through the city's Upper West Side.

Speaking to the New York Times, Rabbi Jill Jacobs said that he protest was designed to show many Jewish people opposed the ban.

She said: “We remember our history, and we remember that the borders of this country closed to us in 1924 with very catastrophic consequences during the Holocaust.

“We know that some of the language that’s being used now to stop Muslims from coming in is the same language that was used to stop Jewish refugees from coming.”

Another Rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum said, "I’m risking arrest today because America welcomed my own immigrant family to its shores, as it did millions of families before us who fled persecution. We’re repeating the tragedy of the St. Louis, the ship carrying 908 Jewish refugees that America turned away in 1939, sending them back to Europe where many were murdered."

 

 

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