What happened when we brought a 'yearbook of the fallen' to Congress
As their confirmation class project, the 10th graders at Temple Emanuel in Kensington, MD created a “yearbook of the fallen” to commemorate the high school victims of gun violence killed in 2018.
80 Years Later: How the Tragedy of the St. Louis Inspires Our Advocacy for Refugees
The recent surge in xenophobic policies and anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. raises alarm because we Jews remember what it’s like to be unwelcome on America’s shores.
This Gun Violence Awareness Month, join the Reform Movement in Action
June is Gun Violence Awareness Month, a time for heightened attention to confronting the plague of gun violence that ravages our streets, schools, and houses of worship.
Pride Month: Victories for LGBTQ equality and the work ahead
Every June, Pride Month offers us an opportunity to celebrate LGBTQ equality and recommit to fighting for full inclusion for everyone in the LGBTQ community.
Rabbi Pesner on the 2020 Census: Every. Single. Name.
The Book of Numbers tells us
that God told the Children of Israel
to “take a census of the whole community,
every family according to its ancestral household,
listing every single name…”
Rabbi Esther Lederman: Children belong in schools, not cages.
In the Book of Jeremiah we read:
“A cry is heard in Ramah —
Wailing, bitter weeping.
Rachel weeping for her children.
She refuses to be comforted for her children, for they are no longer.”
Standing Together for International Religious Freedom
Seven months after being acquitted of blasphemy charges by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian, finally joined her family in Canada on May 7, 2019.
On World Refugee Day, the U.S. must meet and expand its resettlement commitments
June 19, 2019
Dear Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives: