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"Too Often We Forget About Each Other"
When I was on the Jerusalem city council, I gave a lot of thought to earthquakes. The seismologists had figured out that every eighty years an earthquake strikes Israel, and since the last major earthquake occurred in 1927, we are due for another one soon.
A Vision of Food Justice
What did you do to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this year? I spent the weekend with Reform congregation KAM Isaiah-Israel in Hyde Park, Chicago, learning about food.
Can Crisis in the Caribbean Cause Change?
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 domes
Helping Haiti: URJ Opens Disaster Relief Fund
Yesterday, a severe earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter devastated Haiti - the most severe earthquake to hit the already-impoverished impoverished country in 200 years.
First HIV/AIDS Positive Person in 22 Years Legally Enters U.S.
In October of 2009, President Obama repealed a 22-year old injustice from the books of law: people living with HIV/AIDS were no longer banned from entering the United States.
Obama Remembers MLK: "Progress is Possible"
President Barack Obama spoke yesterday at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in remembrance of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The full text of his speech is here, or you can watch it below.
Marriage is Becoming a Better Deal for Men
While gender-based pay discrimination is still rampant in most industries in America and the Paycheck Fairness Act (S.
The URJ's Response to Devastation in Haiti
Some estimates of the death toll from the 7.0 earthquake that rattled Haiti last week have risen to 200,000, as American troops began
Raise Your Voice For Women of the Wall!
It has been so exciting to be in touch with many Reform Jews, through email, phone, or our recent webinars concerning the Women of the Wall, a monthly progressive prayer group that has recently met challenges to their desi
Focus on the Court: 37 Years of Roe v. Wade
Today marks the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade.