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Reform Movement Applauds House Passage of Voting Rights Legislation

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2019 Media Contact Sarah Garfinkel, West End Strategy Team sgarfinkel@westendstrategy.com; 202-776-7700 Reform Movement Applauds House Passage of Voting...

U.S. Jewish Movements: President Trump Must Fire Stephen Miller

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 22, 2019 U.S. Jewish Movements: President Trump Must Fire Stephen Miller WASHINGTON – In response to the revelation that White House senior advisor Stephen...

Reform Jewish Movement Mourns the Death of U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 17, 2019 Reform Jewish Movement Mourns the Death of U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings WASHINGTON-- On learning of the death of Representative Elijah...

Reform Jewish Movement Responds to Removal of U.S. Troops at Turkish-Syrian Border

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11, 2019 Reform Jewish Movement Responds to Removal of U.S. Troops at Turkish-Syrian Border WASHINGTON – In response to President Trump’s sudden withdrawal of U...

Reform Jewish Movement Denounces Historically Low Refugee Cap

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 26, 2019 Reform Jewish Movement Denounces Historically Low Refugee Cap WASHINGTON – In response to the Trump administration’s intention to set a refugee cap...

Reform Movement Decries Administration's Plan to Indefinitely Detain Children and Families

Print In response to the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement including its requirements that the government hold children in the “least restrictive”...

Reform Movement Condemns Proposal Expanding Religious Exemptions for Federal Contractors

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 14, 2019 WASHINGTON – In response to the Department of Labor’s announcement of a proposed rule to expand religious exemptions for federal contractors in...

Reform Jewish Movement Decries Mississippi ICE Raid

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2019 WASHINGTON – In response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mass raid in Mississippi on Wednesday, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the...

New Leader for Reform Jewish Movement's Commission on Social Action

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2019 Media Contact Sarah Garfinkel, West End Strategy Team sgarfinkel@westendstrategy.com; 202-776-7700 New Leader for Reform Jewish Movement’s Commission on...

Rabbi Jonah Pesner's Response to ICE's Planned Mass Deportation Raids

Print FOR IMMIDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2019 WASHINGTON – In response to reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to begin mass deportation raids on Sunday, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner,...

Reform Movement Welcomes Supreme Court Ruling Blocking Discriminatory Citizenship Question

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2019 Media Contact: Sarah Garfinkel, sgarfinkel@westendstrategy.com, (202) 776-7700 WASHINGTON- Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in U.S. Department of...

Reform Movement Welcomes Markup of the Equality Act

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2019 Media Contact: Sarah Garfinkel, sgarfinkel@westendstrategy.com, (202) 776-7700 WASHINGTON- In anticipation of the House...

Reform Jewish Movement Responds to New Zealand Mosque Shooting

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2019 Media Contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON- In response to the tragic murder of 49 worshippers at...

Reform Jewish Movement Welcomes New House Resolution on Anti-Semitism, Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Bigotry

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2019 Media contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to the introduction of a resolution in the...

Reform Movement Welcomes House Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitism

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 5, 2019 Media Contact: Sofi Hersher shersher@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to the introduction of a resolution in...

Reform Movement Lauds House Passage of Universal Background Checks Legislation

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2019 Media Contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – Today, after years of Congressional inaction, the...

Reform Movement Decries National Emergency Declaration to Build Border Wall

Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2019 Media Contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency at...

Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Decision to Allow Discrimination in Foster Care System

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 23, 2019 Media contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to a decision by the Department of...

Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Decision Striking Down the Affordable Care Act

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2018 Media contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to Texas District Court Judge Reed O...

Reform Movement Decries Department of Education’s New Title IX Guidelines

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2018 Media contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to the Department of Education...

Reform Jewish Leader Reacts to 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2018 Media contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON, DC- In response to the outcomes of the 2018...

Reform Jewish Movement Calls on Administration to Uphold Right to Seek Asylum

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2018 Media contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON, DC- In response to reports that the Trump...

Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Trump Administration's New Attempt to Discriminate Against Transgender Individuals

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2018 Media contacts: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-280 WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the Trump administration’s new...

Reform Movement Laments Senate Judiciary Committee’s Vote in Favor of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2018 Media Contacts: Jenna Galper: jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to the Senate Judiciary...

Reform Jewish Movement Opposes Changes to Public Benefits Use for Immigrant Families

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2018 Media Contacts: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, 202-387-280 WASHINGTON, DC- On Saturday, September 21, the Department of...

Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Low Refugee Admissions Ceiling

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2018 Media Contact: Jenna Galper, jgalper@rac.org, (202) 387-2800 WASHINGTON – In response to the Trump administration’s...

Reform Jewish Movement Mourns Loss of Senator John McCain

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 25, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to the death of Senator John McCain, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action...

Reform Jewish Movement Opposes Effort to Undercut Fight Against Climate Change

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to the Trump administration’s announcement of the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, which would...

Reform Jewish Movement Calls on Senate to Reject Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh

<? global $_domain;?> Print Today, the Reform Jewish Movement adds its voice to those calling on the Senate to reject the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. He...

Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Decision to Roll Back Federal Affirmative Action Guidance

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to the Trump administration’s decision to rescind guidance supporting affirmative action policies in...

Reform Jewish Leader Decries Anti-Worker Supreme Court Decision

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2018 WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal...

Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Ruling on Discriminatory Travel Ban Case

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26, 2018 WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Trump v. Hawaii, a case that challenged the legality of the Trump...

Interfaith Clergy Visit Detention Center in McAllen, Texas to Urge End to Separation of Families

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2018 McALLEN, TEXAS – On Thursday, June 21, an interfaith delegation of 40 religious leaders representing the Jewish, Catholic,...

Barbara Weinstein's Remarks at Women of Faith Cry Out to Keep Families Together Prayer Vigil

<? global $_domain;?> Print WASHINGTON- On Tuesday, June 19, Barbara Weinstein, Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism joined a group of Catholic, Protestant,...

Rabbi Rick Jacobs' Remarks at the Poor People's Campaign

<? global $_domain;?> Print On Monday, June 18, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, will offer remarks at the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral...

Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs to Engage in Nonviolent Civil Disobedience with the Poor People’s Campaign

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2018 WASHINGTON – On Monday, June 18, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, will join other leaders of the...

Reform Jewish Movement Expresses Disappointment in Narrow Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2018 WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The...

Reform Jewish Leader Decries Missing Children, Family Separation, and Mistreatment of Minors

<? global $_domain;?> Print For Immediate Release May 28, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to widespread re p orted mistreatment of minors d etained by border patrol and customs agents,...

Reform Movement Opposes FIRST STEP Act, Expresses Support for Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2018 WASHINGTON – Ahead of the House of Representatives’ vote on the FIRST STEP Act (H.R.5682), Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner,...

Remarks by Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner at the Poor People's Campaign 40 Days of Moral Action

<? global $_domain;?> Print WASHINGTON-- On Monday, May 21, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, offered remarks at the Poor People's...

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner and Reform Jewish Leaders Engage in Civil Disobedience with the Poor People’s Campaign

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2018 WASHINGTON – On Monday, May 21, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism will join...

Reform Jewish Movement Responds to Shooting at Santa Fe, Texas High School

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to this morning’s mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, which at least eight...

Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Administration’s Move to Reinstitute the Domestic Gag Rule and Restrict Women’s Reproductive Choices

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to the anticipated proposed regulation released by the administration today that will deny...

Reform Jewish Movement Denounces President's Inflammatory Comments on Immigrants

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2018 WASHINGTON – Yesterday, President Trump derisively referred to certain immigrants, saying, “These aren’t people. These are...

Remarks by Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner at the Faith in Public Life Press Conference to Defend SNAP

<? global $_domain;?> Print For Immediate Release May 7, 2018 On Monday, May 7, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner represented the Reform Jewish Movement at the Faith in Public Life press conference...

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner’s Statement on the Death of Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D., President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Z”L

<? global $_domain;?> Print For Immediate Release May 6, 2018 WASHINGTON – Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D., President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), died...

Reform Jewish Movement Expresses Concern Over New White House Faith-Based Initiative

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 3, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to an executive order establishing a new White House faith-based initiative today, Rabbi Jonah Dov...

Illinois Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Celebrates Official Launch

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2018 CHICAGO – On Wednesday, April 25, the Reform Jewish community of Illinois will celebrate the official launch of the Illinois...

Reform Jewish Movement Denounces House Farm Bill Attacks on Anti-Hunger Program

<? global $_domain;?> Print FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2018 WASHINGTON – In response to the draft of the farm bill released by the House Agriculture Committee yesterday, Rabbi Jonah Dov...

Remarks by April Baskin at the Rally to End Racism

<? global $_domain;?> Print For immediate release April 4, 2018 This afternoon, April Baskin, URJ Vice President for Audacious Hospitality adressed the crowds at the Rally to End Racism in...