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RAC-CA Issue Research Teams
About Issue Research Teams RAC-CA has six issue research teams covering climate change, criminal justice, immigration, health care, housing, and gun violence prevention.
RAC-CA Governance
RAC-CA seeks to build our collective power to create the California of our dreams. Our structure includes professional staff, a statewide leadership team, issue research groups, and congregational social justice teams.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris 2015
Sign the Faithful Call to Address Climate Change and join people of many faith traditions in asking the U.S. government the commit to reduce greenhouse gas emission and help vulnerable communities adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Rosh HaShanah: Family Activities
Here are some fun Rosh HaShanah-related blessings, rituals crafts and activities for your family to welcome the new year.
Teaching Children about Reducing Waste (Bal Tashchit)
Yasmin must hold her nose to wade through the garbage piling up outside the Plony house. Though she turns off the faucet and begs Momma Plony not to use extra paper towels, it takes a magical Sparks-inspired flood to sort out the real trash from the recyclables.
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About the High Holidays?
Take this quiz to test your knowledge about the Jewish High Holidays.
Example Snapshots of JewV’Nation Fellows and Projects
Russian Jewish Community Member Fellow: Alex is a Russian-born American Jewish man in his mid-30s. He emigrated from the former Soviet Union when he was a small child and was raised in a Russian-speaking home with his parents and extended family in Brighton Beach.
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Reform Triumphalism, and the 1885 Pittsburgh Platform
In November, 1885, a small group of Reform rabbis met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to discuss the basic principles of the then growing Reform Movement in Judaism in America.
Thank You
We recognize individuals, foundations, and organizations whose annual contributions from January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 reached or exceeded $1,000. We are profoundly grateful for the dedication of those donors who choose to remain anonymous.
Jennifer Brodkey Kaufman
Jennifer Brodkey Kaufman, of Congregation B’nai Israel in Sacramento, is the Chair of the North American Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism.