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Rabbi Timoner spoke at a Union Square rally last Sunday, joining protestors across the country to call for the return of hostages and an end to the war. As reported in Haaretz, they stood in support of “The Time is Now,” a major peace event held in Tel Aviv one day later.

For a thoughtful and thought-provoking conversation about why this year’s Passover is  different, listen to last Thursday’s All of It, featuring Rabbi Green.

A New York Times article profiling Senate Majority Leader and CBE member Chuck Schumer following his controversial speech on the Senate floor last week highlights the role Rabbi Timoner played as his rabbi.

Rabbi Timoner argues that Franklin Foer’s recent Atlantic piece about the end of “the Golden Age of American Jews” tells a dangerous story. Rabbi Timoner writes: “The way to safety and freedom for American Jews cannot be backward. It must be forward, to the next wave of liberal democracy that includes us all.”

Rabbi Timoner was interviewed in Politico about Senator Schumer’s speech.

A group of community volunteers that prepares Jewish bodies for burial is featured in this JTA article, and includes testimony from Rabbi Timoner, one of the group’s founding members. You can hear Rabbi Timoner and learn more about the movement to elevate, normalize, and demystify Jewish end-of-life rituals by listening to this Exit Strategy podcast episode.

March 3rd’s Israelis for Peace protest in Union Square was featured in this Forward article, including photographs of Rabbi Timoner lifting a bullhorn to say that although she supports Israel’s right to defend itself, “continued war and Israeli occupation of Gaza will be an unmitigated disaster” and “a bilateral ceasefire with hostage and prisoner release has never been more urgent.”

“It’s important for a lot of CBE members to care about both people — the lives of Israelis and Palestinians — and care about the rights and the future of those people,” Rabbi Timoner said in an interview about the post-October 7 moment.

Rabbi Timoner was one of several Jewish Americans featured on PBS’s segment about different perspectives to the war and rising antisemitism in the US. Watch it here.

The Forward covered CBE’s attendance at the March for Israel on the National Mall in DC. About 150 CBE members and friends from other Brooklyn synagogues and minyanim attended. Read the article here.

Rabbi Timoner was featured in the CNN article, “Progressives should never tolerate antisemitism.” Read it here.

Rabbi Timoner was one of three rabbis highlighted in the article, “These 3 progressive rabbis are the voices I trust right now.” Read it here.

CBE was featured on SRF News about New York synagogues’ responses to the atrocity in Israel. Watch it here.

Rabbi Timoner adapted her sermon from Shabbat B’reishit into an op-ed for The New York Times. Read it here.

Over the past few days, Rabbi Timoner was quoted in a number of news stories about the atrocity in Israel. Find them below:

• The New Yorker 
• The New York Times
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• NY Daily News
• Jewish Insider

Last updated: 10/19/23. 

Rabbi Timoner was one of the rabbis featured in Jewish Telegraphic Agency‘s survey of “What North American rabbis spoke about in their High Holiday sermons.” Read it here.

Shofar Across Brooklyn with Cantor Breitzer was featured on NY-12. Watch the segment here.

Yasher koach to Rabbi Kolin and the CBE Climate Team for representing us at the March to End Fossil Fuels. Watch an excerpt of Rabbi Kolin’s speech from Guardian News (2:32) or read her complete speech on Facebook.

Rabbi Rachel Timoner was one of six progressive New York rabbis profiled about her plans to incorporate the threats to Israeli democracy in her High Holy Days sermons. Read Haaretz‘s coverage .

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz have featured our free Israeli services with Rabbi Josh Weinberg. Find these services and others open to the community here.

In a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article published this week, Rabbi Timoner was quoted about the parallels between Tisha B’Av and Israel’s recent judicial reform. Read it here.

After writing a letter to Mayor Adams about the makeup of his new Jewish Advisory Council, Rabbi Timoner and Rabbi Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah have continued to receive press. Read The New York Jewish Week‘s coverage here.

Rabbi Timoner was featured in a New York Times article about the makeup of Mayor Adams’ new Jewish Advisory Council. Read it here.

New York State Senator Zellnor Y. Myrie has honored Rabbi Timoner as a 2023 Women of Distinction. Learn more here.