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Last week the Obama administration announced a new regulation that precludes people who are eligible for the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, also known as “DREAMers,” from...
While so many of us were, understandably, focused on the results of this week’s election for the White House and Congress, the truth is that more and more important decisions are being made at the...
You’ve probably heard that this election next month is a big one. Many organizations – the RAC included – have spent hours and days and weeks and months encouraging people to Get Out the Vote and...
After a months-long political campaign, we wake up this morning, take a look around at the new additions to the political landscape, and get ready to “think big” about our goals over the next few...
Growing up I always thought of banned books as something distant, something absurd that only happened long ago and far away. I could read with a removed shock the story of the “The Rabbit’s Wedding...
Last month, the Obama Administration announced that youth who are eligible for would not qualify for benefits extended under the Affordable Care Act.
Most of the headlines about a new Public Religion Research Institute poll on Jewish values and political beliefs have focused on question about who the respondents would like to see win the 2012...
Last week, the Supreme Court justices heard oral argument in Arizona v. United States. The legal lineup was one with which we are familiar: Paul Clement represented the state of Arizona and Don...
Arizona v. United States takes the spotlight at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 25. This highly anticipated argument will clarify issues spanning from civil rights to federalism. The main...
Although the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act has historically been one of the least polarizing political issues since its introduction in 1994, the House and the Senate have found...
As if Alabama’s notorious immigration law, H.B. 56, were not discriminatory enough, the state legislature recently made revisions to the law that further infringe on the human rights of immigrants....
On Tuesday, Maryland rabbis met with leaders from the Religious Action Center and Jews United for Justice to talk about grassroots organizing around two critical issues that will appear on the...
Last week, federal officials launched the “Secure Communities” program in the District of Columbia amid dissent from the entire City Council and Mayor. Secure Communities is a program designed to...
“When strangers sojourn with you in your land, you shall not do them wrong. The strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as the natives among you, and you shall love them as yourself; for you...
Yesterday morning, the Supreme Court handed down its decision on the constitutionality of Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070 (read RAC Director Rabbi David Saperstein’s statement here.)
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I remember pausing on the playground to listen to an announcement over the loudspeaker: “Attention students: if one or both of your parents works in New York...
Immigrant children in the United StatesIn 1975, Texas revised education statutes in a manner that allowed the state to withhold funds for the education of children who did not legally enter the...
On Thursday, July 19th, Rabbis Rick Jacobs, Steve Fox, and David Saperstein joined thirteen other leaders of the Reform Jewish Movement for a meeting at the White House with Chief of Staff Jack Lew...
Despite this era of heightened partisan bickering, there is one thing that 533 members of congress have in common (all but Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Betty Sutton (D-OH)). Despite a history of...
Even as President Obama takes steps to make college more affordable, one group of students is undeniably left out of the conversation: high school students who were brought to this country as...
The following is an excerpt from “Immigrant Roots, Immigrant Rights,” a haggadah created for Jews United For Justice’s 11th Annual Labor Seder. The full haggadah is available in the RAC’s Passover...
The Supreme Court is officially back in session as of 10 a.m. today. As The Washington Post puts it, the Supreme Court has "an agenda that both reflects the nation's political landscape and offers...
Last week, the legal team for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer filed a petition requesting that the United States Supreme Court accept her appeal of a lower court's ruling blocking the most aggressive...
Swimming on the pristine beaches of Massachusetts' Cape Cod National Seashore. Camping in Arizona's Sonoran Desert (pictured at right). Boating with alligators in the Everglades. As Americans, we...
New Years and new Congresses have a lot in common: they're all about the resolutions....
In the past, there has been extensive bipartisan support for fixing America's broken immigration system, and it was even a key Obama campaign promise. Yet so far, no luck. With twelve million...
When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him....
Last week, Reps. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), and Steve King (R-IA), unveiled their new anti-immigration plan: to mandate that all employers in America use the online verification...
Each year, approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools. The bipartisan Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act (H.R.1842/S.952) addresses the...
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented on Monday to Sen. Dianne Feinstein by Madison Tully and Haily Marzullo. Both are members of Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles, Calif., who...
While many college students slept off their New Year's festivities, Gaby Pacheco, Juan Rodriguez, Felipe Matos, and Carlos Roa began the decade on a more agile note. These four protestors, former...
While the recent crisis in Haiti has spurred many Americans to action - through donations, public service, humanitarian aid, etc. - it has also precipitated a reckoning with current domestic policy...
In October of 2009, President Obama repealed a 22-year old injustice from the books of law: people living with HIV/AIDS were no longer banned from entering the United States. That law recently went...
When most people have their photo taken for a new driver's license or passport, the government-issued photo I.D. is anything but becoming - think dour faces, terrible lighting, and a general look...
Last week, the New York Times blog, "Prescriptions," which is devoted to the ongoing explanation of the increasingly muddled health care debate, published an overdue article clarifying the cost of...
In Leviticus 19:33-34, we read, "When strangers sojourn with you in your land, you shall not do them wrong. The strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as the natives among you, and you ...
Today, March 11, 2010, President Obama will meet with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. A top priority of the Obama campaign...
Update on Immigration Reform:...
March 21, 2010 was historic. Much needed health insurance reform was finally passed after a century-long struggle to provide coverage to all Americans. Cheers! 200,000 people -- twice the...
Not even two weeks ago, more than two hundred thousand people descended on the National Mall to demand comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). If those numbers didn't wow you, now a new survey by...
Emily Schwartz is an intern at the Religious Action Center and a senior at The George Washington University.
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We’ve talked a lot about this election – what it means for states, what it means for women, what it means for Jews. Yet we haven’t yet talked about a demographic who voted for the President at a 71...
This week we want to shed light on one of the most vulnerable populations in Israel. During the last five to ten years, thousands of asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa have crossed the Sinai...
Members of the House of Representatives faced an important choice last week: whether or not to take the first step toward immigration reform, and what exactly this step will look like. A vote was...
There exists today a group that, like the African-Americans of the 1960s, are systematically discriminated against and ignored in our federal policy; a group that lives as second-class citizens due...
At the base of the Statue of Liberty, we read the famous words written from the voice of Lady Liberty herself – “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” What...
May 21, join voices from the Reform Movement across the country and call on your Senators to support comprehensive immigration reform.
Rabbis Organizing Rabbis, a group of activist clergy who mobilize those in their congregations and communities to action, has been fiercely advocating for federal comprehensive immigration reform...
As the United States continues to struggle with a broken immigration system, six members of the House of Representatives with Jewish backgrounds are sharing their family's immigration stories. ...
