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Rabbi Jonah Pesner's Response to ICE's Planned Mass Deportation Raids
“At a time when the administration should be focused on reuniting immigrant families and closing immigrant detention centers, it is unconscionable that the Department of Homeland Security is once again planning to launch deportation raids across the United States."
New Leader for Reform Jewish Movement's Commission on Social Action
"Today, leaders of the Commission on Social Action (CSA), a joint body of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Judaism, announced that Susan Friedberg Kalson has been unanimously selected as the next chair of the Commission on Social Action. "
Reform Jewish Leader Urges President to Protect DACA Applicants from Deportation
For Immediate Release
December 1, 2016
Contact: Max Rosenblum or Graham Roth
202.387.2800 | news@rac.org
Reform Jewish Leader Expresses Concern for Safety of Standing Rock Protesters
For Immediate Release
December 2, 2016
Contact: Max Rosenblum or Graham Roth
202.387.2800 | news@rac.org
Reform Jewish Leader Praises the Army's Decision on Standing Rock
For Immediate Release
December 5, 2016
Contact: Max Rosenblum or Graham Roth
202.387.2800 | news@rac.org
Reform Jewish Leader Responds to NC Legislature Failing to Repeal HB 2, the So-Called "Bathroom Bill"
For Immediate Release
December 22, 2016
Contact: Max Rosenblum: 202-387-2800, news@rac.org
Statement from Rabbi Rick Jacobs: Our Hearts Are With Kenosha
Our prayers are with Jacob Blake and his family as he begins a long road of physical and emotional recovery. Our hands are outstretched and ready to do the work necessary to end systemic racism.
URJ Statement on Israel Supreme Court Decision
We applaud the Israeli Supreme Court on its decision regarding the Sumarin family.
Reform Jewish Movement Decries Inhumane Treatment of Migrant Children
“We are chilled and outraged by recent reports detailing the detention of children in hotels, lacking access to proper care, in danger of abuse and predation, and expelled from the US without due process and in circumvention of international and domestic asylum laws."
Joint Statement from the URJ, CCAR, RA, USCJ, RRA and Reconstructing Judaism on Solidarity with the ADL and the Importance of Coalitions for Justice
Today, the URJ and CCAR joined with the Conservative and Reconstructionist Movements to issue a statement affirming our historic and ongoing close partnership with the ADL and our commitment to continuing to work in broad coalitions across lines of faith and race to heal what is broken in our world.