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On Shavuot, as we received the Torah anew, with its unbending demand for justice, we also witnessed protests in Minneapolis, Louisville, and around the United States following the all-too-familiar lethargy in bringing George Floyd’s killers to justice.  

Black Lives Matter is a Jewish Value: A Statement from Reform Jewish Movement Leadership

More than 800 rabbis and cantors from denominations representing a wide array of the American Jewish community today released a letter urging police and law enforcement not to interfere with peaceful protests taking place throughout the U.S.

“We celebrate the Supreme Court’s historic decision protecting the LGBTQ community from workplace discrimination. By ruling that Title VII prohibits sex discrimination including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the Court has affirmed the right of all Americans to work free from the threat of these types of prejudice."

In response to today’s Supreme Court decision preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, released the following statement on behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the wider Reform Movement Institutions:

In response to today’s Supreme Court decision in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo to block an unconstitutional targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law in Louisiana, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Rabbi Marla Feldman, executive director of Women of Reform Judaism, released the following statement on behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism, Women of Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the wider Reform Movement Institutions:

In response to the Supreme Court decision in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue permitting state funding of private religious education, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, released the following statement on behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference on American Rabbis and the wider Reform Movement institutions:

Today, the Supreme Court ruled in the consolidated cases of Trump v. Pennsylvania and Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania regarding federal regulations allowing employers and universities to invoke religious beliefs to deny contraceptive coverage to employees and students.

Few people have had as long or as profound an impact upon the course of a nation as did Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.