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May 22, 2013 12:00 AM
The Community First Choice option expands access to home- and community-based care in your state, leading to better health outcomes for older adults and individuals with disabilities. We are taught in Pirkei Avot to not separate ourselves from our community, but too often people with disabilities are forced to do just that. Urge your governor [...]
Fresh Updates from RAC » Civil Rights
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May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Martin Luther King’s letter from a Birmingham Jail is one of the most powerful and stirring documents of the Civil Rights movement in America—in some ways more compelling than the now legendary “I Have a Dream” oration, which electrified the historic March on Washington 50 years ago. Unlike the Dream speech, which was aimed at [...]
Fresh Updates from RAC » Civil Rights
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May 8, 2013 12:00 AM
While the new Senate comprehensive immigration reform bill takes many strides toward improving our immigration system, it also includes some significant steps backward. Our Jewish tradition not only teaches us, but commands us to treat the foreigner living in our country with the same laws as our own. When we read the lines, “The stranger [...]