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New York police arrest some 20 rabbis protesting Trump travel ban
February 7, 2017. The rabbis were protesting the Trump administration's most controversial executive order to date when they were arrested for blocking traffic. A group of about 20 rabbis was arrested on Monday night in Manhattan, according to The New York Times. The rabbis were arrested by New York Police for blocking traffic on Columbus Drive outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower, while protesting US President Donald Trump's executive order which restricts travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The protest was organized by T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, a non-profit group of whose mission is to "bring together rabbis and cantors from all streams of Judaism, together with all members of the Jewish community, to act on the Jewish imperative to respect and advance the human rights of all people."
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