Rabbi Jonah Pesner's Response to ICE's Planned Mass Deportation Raids
New Leader for Reform Jewish Movement's Commission on Social Action
URJ Names Ruben Arquilevich Vice President of URJ Camps, NFTY, and Immersive Experiences
On Earth Day, Reform Movement calls for Progress on Climate Change
Weinstein: "For all of that has been achieved since the first Earth Day in 1970, the escalating environmental travesties of the last year -- from record setting temperatures around the globe, to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy -- are bleak reminders of how much
Reform Movement Troubled by Failure of Senate to Expand Background Checks
Laser: "The Senate's inability to pass sensible gun violence prevention legislation is both a political and a moral failure."
Reform Movement Welcomes Introduction of Senate Immigration Bill
Laser: "A path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants here today, a renewed commitment to clearing systemic backlogs, a plan for processing future flow of immigrants, and a reasonable approach to enforcement are all cornerstones of the Reform Movemen
Moral Activists Renew Call for Gun Violence Prevention Laws
Laser: "When 30,000 Americans are killed each year by gun violence, we recognize our moral obligation to speak out.
Bipartisan Support of Background Checks Provides Hope for Gun Violence Prevention
Laser: "The announcement of this bipartisan amendment is a hopeful step toward eradicating gun deaths from our communities, but we will not rest until we have turned our grief into tangible action that brings safety and protection to all Americans."
Rabbi David Saperstein Addresses National Immigration Rally
Saperstein: "In America we finally found a country that gave us more rights, more freedom, more opportunities than we had ever known anywhere in our history outside of Israel.
Reform Movement Urges Action on Paycheck Fairness
Weinstein: Pay disparity touches families across the country. It diminishes the ability to meet basic needs and diminishes the ability to live up to our nations highest aspirations of justice and equality.