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
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.
Jewish Groups Observe World AIDS Day 2010
"We call on the United States, Canada, and other donor countries to step up their support for efforts to develop effective vaccines and microbicides, while also maintaining and improving intervention programs that are proven to reduce new infections."
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