Congress must protect the vulnerable during this public health emergency
With more than 1,200 people testing positive for COVID-19 (coronavirus) in more than 40 U.S. states thus far, and with testing only just starting to ramp up, the U.S., like many countries worldwide, is facing a grave public health and economic crisis.
Administration strips civil rights protections from social services, college campuses
In mid-January, the Trump administration expanded its attack on social services and educational institutions under the guise of religious freedom with the proposal of several new draft policies (known as proposed rules) that would allow government-funded
TRAP laws, just like King Ahaseurus, aim to further control female bodies
Rabbi Eliana Fischel, a rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington D.C., made the follow statements before the June Medical vs. Russo rally in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 4.
Our tradition is no stranger to creative controls on
Join the RAC College Civic Engagement Campaign Network
We are living in an urgent time. As the plague of gun violence persists, immigrants are under attack, and climate change destroys our planet, the Reform movement’s work of bringing justice, unity, and compassion to the world becomes more necessary.
RAC-TX successfully lobbies for Houston immigrant legal defense fund
On February 25, the Harris County Commissioners voted to create a taxpayer-funded legal defense program for immigrants facing deportation in the Houston metro area.
Repairing the World: The Legislative Assistant Experience
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.
Fighting antisemitism with a fair criminal justice system in New York
Joy Friedman made the following remarks at a rally to support bail reform in New York.
I am Joy Friedman, the Director of Organizing for the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. I am a New Yorker and a Reform Jew myself.
Reform Jews across the
Mark Epstein to be awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Award
On January 20, 2020, Mark Epstein, organizer of the Gaston County Better Angels Program, will be the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Award where his name will be etched into the base of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in North Carolina.
How the RAC's work created change in 2019
Throughout 2019, the Religious Action Center worked across North America, and at the state level in the United States, to advance principles of justice, wholeness, and compassion. At a time when our biblically-inspired values to love the ger, or immigrant, to
How to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and Jewish values on MLK Day
Civil rights are in the RAC’s DNA. It was amidst the tumult of the Civil Rights Movement that Kivie Kaplan, vice-chair of the Reform Movement and national president of the NAACP, created the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath s