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L'Taken in the News
News articles and blog posts written by and about L'Taken participants.
L'Taken Student Lobbies to End to Violence Against Women
Over the course of six L’Taken seminars this winter, I had the opportunity to work with inspiring groups of teen advocates dedicated to ending violence against women.
Rabbi Saperstein "Saddened and Appalled by Tragic Violence in Libya, Egypt
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 12, 2012 -- In response to the recent violence in Egypt and Libya, and the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other colleagues, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
Rabbi Saperstein "Saddened and Appalled" by Tragic Violence in Libya, Egypt
The U.S. awoke this morning to learn that our Ambassador to Libya, J. Chris Stevens, along with three of his colleagues had been killed in an attack on our consulate in Benghazi.
Printing Weapons: A Computer-Generated Vision of the Not-Too-Distant Future
Welcome to the 21st century, and welcome to an era of 3-D printed guns.
Rabbi Saperstein Submits Testimony on Hate Crimes and Domestic Extremism
Rabbi Saperstein: "Violent domestic extremism not only threatens Jews, Muslims, and the LGBT community, but is a threat to our national security as a whole."
Not Enough: The Ongoing Fight for Women’s Liberation
As a kid, “Dayenu” was perhaps my favorite Jewish holiday song. It’s catchy, it’s upbeat, and, if you sing the full 15 verses, it goes on forever. With “Dayenu,” we express our thanks for the myriad miracles that took place at the time of the Exodus. We sing that each was so powerful that one alone would have been enough.
Murder Darkens Our Home Field, So We Set Out the Chairs
We worked until almost midnight that Thursday, the 30 of us, all middle-aged softball players, arranging tables and chairs for the funeral of a man we didn’t know terribly well. But he had died so violently, in the face of such anger, that we couldn’t stay away.
The Maror that Lasts Throughout the Year: The Bitterness of Ongoing Hate Crimes
The Department of Justice released an updated version of its Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines and Training Manual earlier this month, including new information on identifying hate crimes against Hindu Americans, Sikh Americans and Arab Americans. The FBI agreed to start tracking hate crimes against these groups in 2013, following a push by advocacy groups, including the RAC, for the FBI to expand the categories of biases it collected hate crime statistics for in the wake of the 2012 shooting at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, WI.
Jewish Views on Women's Rights & Reproductive Choice
Although an unborn fetus is precious and to be protected, Reform Judaism views the life and well-being of the birth parent as paramount, placing a higher value on existing life than on potential life.