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By Allison Grossman, 5/21/2019
These remarks have been lightly adapted from those presented at the lobby prep session of the 2019 Consultation on Conscience on Monday, May 20, 2019.
As the Religious Action Center’s legislative director, I’m thrilled to have the chance to work with our Eisendrath Legislative Assistants every day and with our entire community to advance Reform Movement social justice priorities on Capitol Hill and beyond.
Attendees at the RAC’s 2019 Consultation on Conscience have spent three...
Read More By Sammi Goldsmith, 5/20/2019
These remarks have been lightly adapted from those presented at the lobby prep session of the 2019 Consultation on Conscience on Monday, May 20, 2019.
Deuteronomy commands, “Tzedek, tzedek tirdof, justice, justice you shall pursue.” As Jews, we are told to seek justice, but also to ensure that the means we use to reach justice are just in themselves. A criminal justice system that punishes excessively and discriminatorily violates this instruction. Regrettably, the United States criminal justice system does both.
What is this issue about?Over the past...
Read More By Talia Kaplan, 5/20/2019
These remarks have been lightly adapted from those presented at the lobby prep session of the 2019 Consultation on Conscience on Monday, May 20, 2019.
At least 36 times, in 36 ways, the Torah commands just treatment of the immigrant. When we read this call to action and think about our own histories of migration, it is hard not to see the connections to today’s America. We have witnessed the separation of children from their parents, the narrowing of legal pathways to immigration, the infringement upon the right to seek asylum, and the stripping away of...
Read More By Yolanda Savage-Narva and Heidi Segal, 5/19/2019
These remarks have been lightly adapted from those presented before the opening plenary of the 2019 Consultation on Conscience on Sunday, May 19, 2019.
Two years ago, 800 of us met at what was then the largest Consultation on Conscience ever – but today, we are more than 1,200 strong, and since we last met, so much has happened. We have done so much.
Since we last met, we launched the Urgency of Now, reflecting our tradition’s ageless and enduring call of Torah to rodeph tzedek, pursue justice. Focused on transgender...
Read More 5/17/2019
On May 15, Rabbi Rick Kellner, faith leader of Congregation Beth Tikvah in Worthington, OH and Core Team Member of the Ohio Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, had the opportunity to testify in front of the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a criminal justice reform bill that Ohio’s Reform Jews are deeply involved in. Senate Bill 3 aims to make low level drug possession a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
As it stands, Ohio is locking up those struggling with addiction, at great cost to the state and to human dignity. Felony convictions follow these individuals for...
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