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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.
Parenting on a Prayer: Ancient Jewish Secrets for Raising Modern Children
There are two groups that I think will benefit from Parenting on a Prayer (Ben Yehuda Press, 2020): those of us who are worried that we may not be raising children in the w
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.
Wholly Jewish: Max Antman: The Queerness and Politics of Torah
How can we embrace Judaism from not only a queer perspective, but also a “political” one? Max Antman (he/him), a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, discusses how being a gay man influences his reading of Torah, how his Reform synagogue empowered his gay identity, and the sacred relationship between activism and studying Jewish text.
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