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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.
Repentance and Revelation: An Environmental Confession Informed by the Ten Commandments
Our tradition teaches that Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is not the only day to atone. Rather, the need to atone is a constant one.
The Four Children of Climate Change: A Passover Seder Insert
We often talk at the Passover seder about the Four Children: the wise child, the wicked child, the simple child, and the child who does not know how to ask.
What’s So Jewish About Voting?
Judaism teaches us that voting is not just a civic duty. In fact, throughout Jewish history, many of our rabbis and sages have framed voting as a mitzvah, a Jewish imperative.
Jewish Summer Camp: A Multi-Generational Family Tradition
Everything Reform Jewish summer camping had done for me, it was doing for my children – and more.
When Are We Free? A Seder Activity for All Ages
This Passover, brainstorm some other food combinations that might exemplify the bitterness and sweetness of freedom.
Stories We Tell: My Grandfather's Kittel
In the early 1900s, an elderly Jewish man named Shmulik prays at his synagogue on Yom Kippur. He suddenly faints, only for a fellow congregant to offer him his kittel (traditional ritual garb) to keep him warm. The grandson of that congregant, Rabbi Jonathan Biatch, reflects on this story and how it connects to being a compassionate, caring, and dedicated person to those we cherish the most.
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On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah: Reaching the Promised Land
This week, as we move into the book of Exodus, we transition from learning about Joseph to learning about another Jewish leader: Moses.
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On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah: The Sacred Pursuit for Reparations - Parshat Bo
This week, Rabbi Rick Jacobs takes a look at Parashat Bo and the behaviors of the Israelites during the Exodus from Egypt.
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