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The Eichmann Trial 60 Years Later: What Have We Learned?
April 11, 2021, marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of Adolf Eichmann’s trial, which coincided with the young Jewish state’s bat/bar mitzvah year of independence. These two events represent a microcosm of modern Jewish history.
A Shavuot Social Action Guide
It has been said that the entire Torah exists to establish justice. Thus, through the study of Torah and other Jewish texts, Shavuot offers us an opportunity to recommit ourselves to tikkun olam, the repair of the world.
My Big Question: God, The Milky Way, Miracles, and More
The enormous question for me, then, has always been: Is God watching? When I began to understand computers, I realized that, yes, one thing could follow billions of people if those people were nothing more than data points on a revolving planet with polar icecaps.
Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resources
The Religious Action Center, the Reform Movement’s social justice hub, emerged as a result of the Civil Rights Movement, and this history carries a lasting legacy on our social justice work today.
Racial Justice Work Across the States
Each RAC state project will use the collective power of the Reform Jewish community to advocate for important legislation and policy changes in their state.
Sports, Race Relations, & Growing Up in the 1960s
Born in 1958, I came of age in the 1960s and ‘70s in the north end of Flint, MI. Today, that neighborhood is an urban war zone. Within its few square miles, my old neighborhood is responsible for one of the highest per capita rates of deadly crime in the USA. It was different in 1967.
Judaism's Call for Social Change
The world is not as it should be. This statement resonates with us as decent human beings who observe all the imperfections of our society–poverty, violence, war, inequality, racism, illness, greed, injustice. We know it to be true.
On Yom HaShoah, Hear the Message of the Saved Remnant
My mother’s answer to hate is love. When I asked her what she wishes for herself and for the world, she said, “For myself good health, so I can be good to others. For the world, peace not war. No bad person wins in the end. What did Hitler achieve?”
Roots of Justice
This sermon was given by Rabbi David Stern, an active member of the RAC-TX team, at the Joint Jewish and African American religious service with the Texas Legislative Black Caucus Conference on April 6, 2021.
The Rise of the Reform Rabbinate: Rabbinic Road Out of a Wilderness
A conversation with Rabbis Steve Fox and Lance Sussman, Central Conference of American Rabbis chief executive and national chair of the press, on the dramatic rise of the Reform rabbinate.