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Reform Movement Leaders Respond to Tragic Gun Massacre in Highland Park
We mourn the six lives taken today in Highland Park, IL and pray for all those injured, beloved members of our Reform Jewish community among them. On this day celebrating American independence, it is clear that Americans’ ability to live independent of the fear of gun violence is ever more elusive. With each massacre, the freedom to gather, pray, shop, learn, and simply be, free from fear of gun violence, is taken away.
Fear, Not Freedom
This year, July 4th was especially difficult to celebrate. As young leaders in the Reform Movement, we are troubled by the current state and future of the U.S.
UAHC President Outraged at Car Bombing Attack in Northern Israel
(New York, NY, June 5, 2002) - Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, president of the Reform Movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations, expressed his outrage, revulsion, and disappointment today after learning of the car bomb that was detonated in northern Israel Wednesday morning.