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By Rabbi Suzanne Singer, 8/20/2019
When I first learned of the adolescent detention facility in Homestead, Florida, I was appalled. At its peak, Homestead detained 3,000 adolescent boys and girls who were treated military style, forced to walk single file; forbidden from being touched or touching; threatened with longer detentions as a disciplinary measure. Having a mother who survived Auschwitz, and asking myself what I would have done in Nazi Germany, I decided that I had to stand up for these children. I was inspired by my colleague, Rabbi Andi Berlin, who had joined the protesters earlier. My intention was not to close...
Read More By Arno Rosenfeld, 8/13/2019
Reform Jews across the United States held vigils for immigrant rights on Tisha B’Av Sunday, with hundreds of Jews and allies showing up at events in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, and at more than 60 sites across the country.
The vigils, which were organized and...
Read More By Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, 8/13/2019
To my Reform Jewish community,
Just days ago, Homestead detention center, the only private, for-profit detention center housing immigrant children, shut its doors. While we know that our work to ensure the just treatment of migrants is far from over, make no mistake: the closure of Homestead is a victory for children, it’s a victory for immigrants, and it’s a powerful display of what activism motivated by enduring Jewish values can accomplish. Thank you.
For the past year, you and other Reform Jews in south Florida have organized and mobilized to shut down Homestead...
Read More By Hannalee Isaacs , 8/13/2019
Hannalee Isaacs is a high school senior from Judea Reform Congregation in Durham, North Carolina. She is an alumna of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport L’Taken Social Justice Seminars and the RAC Teen Justice Fellowship, an ongoing learning cohort offered to alumni of L’Taken. For her final project in the fellowship, Hannalee submitted an entry to Americans United for Separation of Church and State student essay contest. The contest asks students to reflect on church-state separation and religious freedom. Below is an excerpt from Hannalee’s essay.
Religion is a defining identity...
Read More By Professor Steven Windmueller, 8/09/2019
This article was originally published on jewishjournal.com.
Tisha b’Av is a frame of reference, recalling moments of Jewish destruction and despair. There are rhythms to those seasons in which we mourn our collective as well as personal losses. The feeling tones of how we confront life and death were introduced in both our liturgy and Jewish texts. Our rabbis provided us with a language to mourn as well as to reflect.
Just as these days set aside in the Jewish...
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