Empowering Young Leaders
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RAC Teen Justice Fellowship
The RAC Teen Justice Fellowship is a learning intensive designed to train high schoolers to be organizers in their home communities. Fellows will meet virtually for an hour once a week for six weeks to hone their leadership skills, learn community organizing skills, and complete a project in your home community you design and lead.
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Teen Jews of Color Fellowship
This *new* fellowship is a transformative experience for 11th and 12th grade Jewish Teens of Color that offers an inclusive and vibrant space for participants to explore all their intersecting identities, cultivate leadership skills, and engage in meaningful project-based learning.
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L'Taken Social Justice Seminars
At the Bernard and Audre Rapoport L'Taken Social Justice Seminars, teens from across North America converge on Washington, DC for four days of advocacy and action.
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Eisendrath Legislative Assistant Fellowship
The Legislative Assistant Program is a year-long fellowship for recent college graduates or individuals with equivalent academic and professional experience, who are interested in Judaism, social justice, and policy. The program is designed as training opportunity for new professionals interested in learning about and contributing to the work of Jewish social justice.
What's New
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Highlights from the 2024-2025 L'Taken Season
Over the 2024-2025 season, we brought 1,800 Jewish high schoolers from across the US to join us in Washington, D.C. over our five seminars. They visited the sites, met other Reform teens from coast to coast, learned about social justice and advocacy, and made their voices heard on Capitol Hill.
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Introducing the 2024-2025 Eisendrath Legislative Assistants
We are overjoyed to introduce ourselves as the 2024-2025 Eisendrath Legislative Assistants! As a cohort, we bring a variety of life experiences, educational backgrounds, and diverse passions to our work at the Religious Action Center.
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Celebrating Disability Pride Month: Teens Urge Congress to Fund Special Education
The RAC is proud to bring thousands of teens to Washington D.C. for our annual L'Taken Social Justice Seminars. As we celebrate Disability Pride Month in July and the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26th, we think about all the progress that's been made and the work that is left to do around disability justice in the United States.
