By JanetheWriter
Today's New York Times carries a front page article about Nothing But Nets, the initiative to eradicate malaria that recently has exploded in popularity, making charity "cool," particularly among young people. 

As the daughter of a parasitologist, I have long known about Plasmodium falciparum and the other parasites that cause malaria, as well as about Giardia lamblia, Schistosoma, Toxoplasma gondii, Trichinella spiralis, and Sarcoptes scabei, and the horrific diseases and death each can cause. 

As a Reform Jew, I read the article with pride, knowing that, as is so often the case, our Movement has, as it so often does, responded in a positive, meaningful way to defeating the injustices, inequalities and inequities that surround us.  By joining the Nothing But Nets campaign, Reform Judaism has provided one more opportunity for us--both individually and collectively--to raise the powerful prophetic voice that has been bequeathed to us as Reform Jews so that we can help to repair our fractured world.

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