Empowering Young Leaders

RAC Teen Justice Fellowship

The RAC Teen Justice Fellowship is a wonderful experience for teens in 9-12th grade to connect with other social justice leaders, explore their passions, gain advocacy experience, and have a great leadership experience for their college application.

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Teen Jews of Color Fellowship

The Teen Jews of Color Fellowship is a transformative experience for 11th and 12th graders that offers an inclusive and vibrant space for participants to explore and engage with all their intersecting identities, form community, cultivate leadership skills, and create meaningful projects based on their learnings. We welcome teens with a range of diverse Jewish identities including (but not limited to) mixed race Jews, transracial adoptees, Asian, Black, Latine, Sephardic, Mizrachi, Persian Jews, and many others.

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L'Taken Social Justice Seminars

At the Bernard and Audre Rapoport L'Taken Social Justice Seminars, teens from across North America converge on Washington, DC for four days of advocacy and action.

Photo of the 2024-2025 Eisendrath Legislative Assistants Tamara Upfal, Jessica Cadmus, Eric Goldberg, Mason Purdy, and Olivia Kogan

Eisendrath Legislative Assistant Fellowship

The Legislative Assistant Program is a year-long fellowship for recent college graduates or individuals with equivalent academic and professional experience, who are interested in Judaism, social justice, and policy. The program is designed as training opportunity for new professionals interested in learning about and contributing to the work of Jewish social justice.

What's New

Photo of the 2025-26 RAC LAs Daniel Block, Liana Smolover-Bord, and Sari Rosenberg

Introducing the 2025-2026 Eisendrath Legislative Assistants

October 1, 2025

We are overjoyed to introduce ourselves as the 2025-2026 Eisendrath Legislative Assistants! As a cohort, we bring a variety of life experiences, educational backgrounds, and diverse passions to our work at the Religious Action Center.

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Inside the Inaugural L'Taken Canada

April 25, 2025

Over the weekend of March 28-31, 2025, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC), in partnership with Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) and the Reform Jewish Community of Canada, was thrilled to hold the inaugural L’Taken Canada program!

Photo of a group of teens standing in front of the capital building for L'Taken 2025

Highlights from the 2024-2025 L'Taken Season

March 13, 2025

Over the 2024-2025 season, we brought 1,800 Jewish high schoolers from across the US to join us in Washington, D.C. over our five seminars. They visited the sites, met other Reform teens from coast to coast, learned about social justice and advocacy, and made their voices heard on Capitol Hill.