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By Jonah Bookman, 9/16/2019
I chose to spend the last day of summer before 7th grade participating in RAC’s 2019 Sacramento Lobby Day. This was a very special experience for me. It was so incredible to be able to go and participate with my congregation, Or Ami, of Calabasas. I have always hated thinking about people who go to bed at night with no safe place to sleep and no food. Even though it’s hard to imagine, I can think about how horrible it would be if it were me and my family. I witnessed a lot of homelessness in San Francisco when I went with my grandpa a few years ago and I’ve wanted to do something about it...
Read More By Michael Barash, Evan Lorant, and Josh Rosenblum, 9/13/2019
Going up to NFTY’s North American President and asking her to take our resolution off the agenda for Asefah (NFTY’s business meeting) just hours before the meeting began was the last thing we expected to do, but it is what we did. For nearly a month, the three of us spent hours crafting the resolution that would set NFTY’s stance on climate change. This was an important first step towards making NFTY more sustainable and more environmentally conscious, but up until that point, we failed to see that there was an incredible number of people who shared the same concern for our planet and our...
Read More By Avi Holzman, 9/12/2019
Avi Holzman, right, and two friends in Israel during the URJ’s Heller High program in Israel.
This past spring, I was fortunate enough to spend four months in Israel on the URJ’s Heller High program. Just as I expected, the program educated me about Israel and strengthened my Jewish Identity. However, I did not know that I would also be doing social justice work while in Israel. Yet it turned out that a core part of the Heller High program was the mitzvah projects that we did every Friday morning. One week we did a beach clean up on a beach near Tel Aviv, another week we helped...
Read More 9/09/2019
We are very excited to dive into our work as the 2019-2020 Eisendrath Legislative Assistants! Though we have diverse backgrounds in social justice work, we are all deeply committed to bringing about a more just, equitable, and compassionate world during our time at the RAC. We are proud to represent the Reform Movement and its values during this crucial moment in history, and we welcome you to contact us with any questions you may have about the Reform Movement’s policy positions.
Danny Cooper grew up in New York City, where he was a member of the...
Read More By Tyler Dratch, 8/30/2019
Last June, Rep. Ted Leiu stood on the floor of the House of Representative and played a deeply disturbing audio recording. From his cellphone came the cries of young children separated from their families who were being held in immigrant detention centers. The recording was a wake-up call to many, opening their ears and eyes to injustices occurring along our southern border. The humanity of people trying to claim asylum, reunite with their families, or seek a...
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