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Words Not Spoken . . . Words Not Heard
Words are powerful. In Genesis, chapter one, God creates through words: “God said, ‘Let there be light!’—and there was light. . . . God said, ‘Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,’. . . . God now said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image,’ ” (Genesis 1:3, 6, 26).
Connection Fuels Jewish Disability Advocacy Day 2016
Maria Town, the Associate Director of the White House's Office of Public Engagement addresses JDAD 2016
The Core of the Matter: What Does it Mean to Support a Two-State Solution?
For decades, the Reform Movement has been an active proponent of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Challenge of Righteousness
The wording of the verse gives rise to this debate. The text states that “Noah was a righteous man,” but immediately follows with the phrase “in his generation, he was above reproach. . . ” All of us, including the ancient Rabbis, are left to wonder if Noah is exceptional or not, if his righteousness would be universally righteous or simply righteous in his time.
Washington State's Continued Fight for Transgender Rights
Across the country, there has been an onslaught of anti-LGBT bills that have been introduced in state legislatures.
Reform Movement Urges Swift Action by Senate on Supreme Court Vacancy
On behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism, whose over 900 congregations encompass 1.5 million Jews across North America, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which represents over 2,000 Reform rabbis, and Women of Reform Judaism that represents more than 65,000 women in nearly 500 women’s groups in North America and around the world, we urge you to uphold your constitutional responsibility to hold timely hearings and a vote on whoever is nominated by President Obama to fill the Supreme Court vacancy.
The Core of the Matter: Addressing Israel's Security Needs
This is the second in a series of posts outlining some of the core issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Reform Movement’s positions on these issues.
How One Congregation is Breaking the Color Barrier
I know we have a long way to go, but for this congregation, situated in the city just a few miles from the Old Court House where the slave Dred Scott lost his case for freedom, I have hope that we are chipping away at the racism that plagues us.