Support of The Annapolis Peace Conference
BACKGROUND
Refugees and Sanctuary
We are instructed in the Holiness Code (Lev. 19:33) to take to heart the lessons of our own history by treating aliens in our midst with justice and compassion. "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall do him no wrong.
Missionaries and Deprogramming
While the right to proselytize in our society is protected by constitutional guarantees of religious liberty, we are concerned, nonetheless, by the current intensification of missionary activity directed toward Jews in many parts of this country.
Ending Global Poverty
Background
A World at Peace
48th General Assembly
November 1965
San Francisco, CA
September 11 and Its Aftermath
BACKGROUND
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon seem so long ago and yet remain so fresh in our minds.
Affordable Housing
60th General Assembly
November 1989
New Orleans, Louisiana
War in Iraq 2007
Resolution on the War in Iraq 2007
Union for Reform Judaism
Executive Committee
March 12, 2007
Strange Fruit
After seeing the infamous 1930 photograph by Lawrence Beitler, which depicts the mob lynching of two young black men, a Jewish high school teacher named Abel Meeropol wrote a haunting poem titled "Strange Fruit." The poem was first published in 1936 in The New York Teacher, a union magaz
The War In Iraq
Submitted by the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, Congregation Shir Hadash of Los Gatos, California, Congregation Tikkun V'or of Ithaca, New York, Temple Beth Or of Everett, Washington, Temple Emanuel of Worcester, Massachusetts, Temple Sinai of Brookline, Massachu