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Reform Movement Horrified by Fort Hood Shooting
Rachel Laser: "The Talmud teaches us, 'He who takes one life it is as though he has destroyed the universe.' The loss of so many lives is not just devastating - it is unacceptable.
Response to shooting in Kansas City: A Modern Plague of Violence
Tonight at our Seder tables teeming with life, we pause with heavy hearts as we grieve with the families of those killed yesterday in the shootings that took place in a Jewish Community Center and a nearby Jewish senior living community in Overland Park, Kansas.
Reform Movement Horrified by Fort Hood Shooting
In response to yesterday's tragic shooting at Fort Hood in Killeen, TX, Rachel Laser, Deputy Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
Position of the Reform Movement on Sudan and Darfur
The Reform Jewish Movement has been quite vocal on the issue of universal human rights.
Reform Movement Urges Co-Sponsorship of Safe Schools and Non-Discrimination Legislation
Rabbi David Saperstein: "As Jews, our tradition and history teach us that we should not stand by as others suffer- we envision a government which 'to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance' (George Washington, in a letter to Moses Seixas, 1790).
Legislative Update on Criminal Justice
Sentencing Reform As part of a growing tough-on-crime attitude in the 1980s, legislators at the state and federal levels passed a myriad of new laws imposing harsh mandatory minimum sentences for a variety of crimes, most notably for nonviolent drug offenses. In the following decades, the...
Position of the Reform Movement on Mental Health
Mental health is an important issue for the Reform Movement. In 2001, the URJ passed a resolution titled, "Establishing a Comprehensive System of Care for Persons with Mental Illness.” The resolution urges the URJ to address mental health issues that exist in many arenas of society.
Background on HIV/AIDS in the US
HIV is an epidemic, increasingly affecting more and more people each and every day. It is estimated that at least one American teenager is infected with HIV every hour of every day.
Position of the Reform Movement on Education
The most recent Reform Movement policy on education was passed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) in June 2004. Titled "Resolution on Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v.
Background on Global AIDS
"We cannot confuse progress with victory - this epidemic is far from over." -- Helene Gayle, M.D., M.P.H. Director of the Center for Disease Control's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention Living in North America, we often hear about HIV/AIDS and prevention. Many believe that because of...