Protecting Civil Rights
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The Trump administration proposed policies that allow government agencies, grantees, and contractors to discriminate against employees and beneficiaries on the basis of religion while still receiving federal funding. These policies affect a variety of areas including health care, social services, federal contractors, and child welfare agencies and, in many cases, will authorize discrimination against religious minorities, LGBTQ people, and women. As Jews, we know that state-sanctioned discrimination quickly becomes a stain on the nation and believe that the government should never discriminate using taxpayer funding.
What's New
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Celebrating the 33rd Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
On July 26th, we will celebrate the 33rd Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications, access to state and local government programs and services, and more.
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Celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility: Why the Senate Must Pass the Equality Act
Earlier this month, the Senate Judiciary Committee held the first-ever Senate hearing on the Equality Act, a landmark bill that would add nondiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity to federal civil rights law.
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Owning Our Racial Equity Work Ahead: Three Things We Must Do
In the video “Owning Our Racial Equity Work Ahead,” Yolanda Savage-Narva, the Union for Reform Judaism’s director of Racial, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI), calls on each of us in the Jewish community to do three things.
