Rabbi Pesner to President Obama: Protect DACA Participants and Applicants from Deportation
Today, Rabbi Jonah Pesner sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to take swift action to protect those who have applied or participated in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to not face deportation for simply seeking access.
Host a Gun Violence Prevention Shabbat
How do we work to prevent what has become an epidemic of gun violence? How do we honor those who have become the victims of this deadly trend? And how do we engage in this issue, specifically as Jews?
Social Justice Gift Guide 5777
In search of a unique gift for the social justice junkie in your life? Look no further than our Social Justice Hanukkah Gift Guide, with eight suggestions full of tzedek – one for each night!
The Mistaken Equivalency of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism
A dilemma for Diaspora Jews: Identify as Jews and reconcile that identification with a Jewish State that often is perceived as the incarnate of evil.
Who Is a Jew? Protecting Converts in Israel
Some of our fiercest battles are coming to the Knesset. Legislators will try to pass laws undoing our greatest achievements. They will try to write statutes legalizing discrimination. We will have none of it.
One Year and Counting to the URJ Biennial!
One year from today: December 6, 2017, the Union for Reform Judaism’s 74th Biennial General Assembly will convene at the Hynes Convention Center – in the heart of historic Boston’s vibrant Back Bay neighborhood – and run until December 10.
The Urgency of Now: Actions for the New Political Landscape
Our tradition’s ageless and enduring call of Torah to rodeph tzedek – pursue justice – continues to inspire today’s Reform Movement. As members of the largest and most diverse Jewish denomination in North America – which includes liberals and conservatives, Democrats, Republicans and independents alike – we have a responsibility, individually and collectively, to reject hate and help heal our nation following the deeply polarizing 2016 election.
South Lands, a Poem for Parashah Vayeitzei
The night after Be’er Sheba brings no dreams. / Morning birds sail through the canyon...
America’s First Jews: Adapting to Life in the New World
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society spans two-and-a-half centuries of the Jewish experience in the New World.