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If someone told me as a high school senior that after graduating college, I’d find myself working in Washington, D.C. for the largest Jewish denomination in North America, I would have been skeptical. In the years following my Bar Mitzvah, I barely set foot in temple.

On Wednesday, nearly 200 Reform Jews from across Ohio gathered at the Statehouse in Columbus to advocate for just policies in the Buckeye State.

One week after participating in the HIAS Immigrant Justice delegation to San Diego, I was still haunted by memories of the men, women, and children getting up in the early hours of the day to be at the U.S. border at 4:00 a.m.

Before members of Congress leave Washington for the holidays, they need to rectify a crisis of their and the Trump administration’s own making.

Temple Emanu-El is a 2019 Fain Award recipeint for its project, the Westfield Fun Club. 

Congress’s last week in session in 2019 was dramatic, tense, and consequential for millions of people in America and around the world.

It’s no secret that teens and young adults have become the leading advocates for gun violence prevention.

I “got the call” to the rabbinate my junior year in college. After speaking to my parents, I went to talk to my Hillel rabbi. He asked me, “Rachel, do you really want to be a rabbi? Or do you just want to be a more observant Jew?”

In the spring of 2019, an alarming surge in anti-abortion legislation took place in state legislatures across the U.S.