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Cardboard sign reading WE STAND AGAINST RACISM

Announcing the Launch of the Reform Movement's 2021 Racial Justice Campaign: What You Need to Know

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner

Yolanda Savage-Narva

April 6, 2021

This campaign aims to help dismantle systemic racism by educating, inspiring, and empowering individuals and communities to look inwardly to make communal change and outwardly to win legislative change.

Women's Rights

From Struggle to Progress: Reflecting on Women’s History Month 2021

Ally Karpel

March 31, 2021

Each March, dozens of countries across the globe commemorate Women’s History Month as a time to highlight the political, cultural, and socioeconomic achievements of women.

Hand painted with the transgender pride flag against a pink wall

Protecting Civil Rights

Celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility: Why the Senate Must Pass the Equality Act

Jacob Greenblatt

March 30, 2021

Earlier this month, the Senate Judiciary Committee held the first-ever Senate hearing on the Equality Act, a landmark bill that would add nondiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity to federal civil rights law.

Sign on a fence with a red line through a gun

Social Justice

We Are Done Waiting

Noa Greene

March 25, 2021

I am done with people in power ending their action at “thoughts and prayers.” The thoughts and prayers that were sent a day ago, year ago, and decades ago have not and will not save human life, nor protect us.

Silhouette of a young boy standing alone against a sunset

Advocacy

How You Can Support Unaccompanied Migrant Children

Elizabeth Leff

March 19, 2021

Like so many across the United States, we are committed to ensuring a compassionate and just national response to the growing numbers of unaccompanied minors entering the United States along the southwest border.

Collage of Black faces and features stitched together to represent the diversity of the Black communal experience

Racial Justice

Reflections on Observing Black History Month in the Wake of the Capitol Insurrection

Robin Harrison

February 23, 2021

This is not yet the America most of us dream of, but it is an unavoidable part of our DNA. American equality and exceptionalism are checks that are still in the mail. If we truly love what this country is capable of, we must continue to speak the hard truth to power.

Social Justice

This Purim, Make Noise to Protest Modern-Day Hamans

Rabbi David Wirtschafter

February 22, 2021

We know that religious freedom is not a lesson from ancient stories, but an ongoing quest even today. While many of us are fighting antisemitism in our home countries, we are also in solidarity with the Rohingya people, who have been persecuted for decades.

Four teens holding signs that say I AM A REFORM JEW AND I SUPPORT DISABILITY RIGHTS

Advocacy

Jewish Disability Advocacy Month: Building a Community for All

Lee Smith

February 17, 2021

Jewish Disability Advocacy Month is an opportunity to participate in the work to achieve a more just world. On February 22, nonprofit and congressional leaders in the field of disability policy will discuss the state of disability rights policy.

Closeup of a burning match against a black background

Israeli History

Nationalism Unhinged: Jewish Insight and Wisdom

Rabbi Josh Weinberg

January 19, 2021

In Hebrew, two terms describe two different aspects of nationalism. Leumiut directly translates to “nationalism"; leumanut carries a jingoistic, chauvinistic, supremacist, and extremist brand of nationalism.

View of the Washington Monument from the Lincoln Memorial with MLK quote in view

Racial Justice

This MLK Day, We Celebrate, Reflect Upon, and Act to Advance Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy

Josh Burg

January 11, 2021

This MLK Day, we can honor the legacy of Dr. King and fight back against white supremacy and systemic racism by urging Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.