Bend the Arc, a movement of progressive Jews who stand for justice and equality, worked in partnership with immigrant-justice allies to protest the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown yesterday. The protests aimed to shine a light on America’s current tragedy: the inhuman treatment of immigrants by the Trump administration.
Yesterday was also in remembrance of Tisha B’Av, the saddest day on the Jewish Calendar beginning at sundown on Saturday, August 10 and ending at sundown on Sunday, August 11. It’s a day of collective mourning to mark the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and the wickedness placed on the Jewish Community’s refugee ancestors.
In 2019, the saddest day also marks the day where Jews around the United States held #CloseTheCamps rallies to protest cruelty that the Trump Administration has bestowed upon immigrant communities, like the one in downtown L.A. The event yesterday was led by Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, Ph.D, a long-time social justice activist