Battered Immigrant Women Robbed of Protections in House VAWA
Women, the Driving Force
The author of this post, Barbara Lerman-Golomb, is a member of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism.
Houla Massacre Puts Syria "Outside the Community of Nations"
Reform Leader Condemns Attacks on African Refugees in Israel
Saperstein: Such violence has no place in any civilized society, much less Israel, the nation state of the Jewish people who have throughout history known similar horrors rooted in ethnic and religious differences.
UPDATE: House Passes a VAWA that Does Not Protect All Victims
UAHC President Expresses Outrage and Grief Over Latest Acts of Palestinian Terror
(New York, NY, January 6, 2003) - Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, President of the Reform Movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations, expressed his outrage and grief today over the two suicide bombings that took place in Tel Aviv during rush hour Sunday evening.
Galilee Diary: The Neighbors
Whoever saves one life in Israel [i.e., of a Jew] is as if he had saved an entire world.
– Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5
Whoever saves one life is as if he had saved an entire world.
VAWA Amendment Violates First Amendment
Although the Senate passed a bipartisan version of VAWA last month that would extend protection from intimate partner violence to all victims regardless of sexual orientation, gender ide