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A Gate in the Fence: A Non-believer’s Conversion to Judaism

Joel Newton

June 2, 2021

Judaism is a religion, but it is also a practice. I choose to practice my Judaism by expressing my love for the Jewish people and my becoming one of them. I practice by immersing myself in Jewish wisdom and participating in the conversation of Jewish philosophy.

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Civil Rights & Voting Rights

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.

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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.

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Social Justice

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.

Religious Pluralism in Israel

My People Are My People: What Israel's Supreme Court Ruling Means for Jews-by-Choice

Rabbi Josh Weinberg

March 2, 2021

The Jewish people have been welcoming people in for thousands of years, and this ruling takes a tremendous step forward in proving that Israel is the Jewish State for all Jews.

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.

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Social Justice

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.

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Civil Rights & Voting Rights

Justice, Justice Shall We Pursue: Resources for Action after the Capitol Insurrection

Kate Bigam Kaput

January 13, 2021

The Union for Reform Judaism shares resources for use in congregations and Jewish communities, as well as by families and individual, in our shared pursuit of justice.

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Civil Liberties

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.

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Israel Religious Action Center

Which is Worse: Reform Jews or Atomic Bombs?

Anat Hoffman

November 9, 2020

Israel is a country for all Jews, and it is long past time that the State recognizes that there is more than one way to be Jewish. We deserve equal treatment and recognition, and we will not be deterred by those who would deny us these rights.

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