Syrian Refugees
With more than 500,000 people displaced to neighboring countries by the violent civil war in Syria, the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief (JCDR) has opened a fund to provide humanitarian aid to the refugees.
RAC-CA New 2020 Policy Agenda to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
RAC-CA Calls on Governor Newsom to Reduce the Population in State Prisons
RAC-CA Calls on Governor Newsom to Reduce the Population in State Prisons
RAC-CA Legislative Advocacy Campaign Results 2020
RAC-CA Legislative Advocacy Campaign Results 2020
4 Lessons We Can Learn from Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
I once had the opportunity, the privilege, the honor, to Rep. Lewis, face to face, exactly why he was my hero. Now, in honor of one of the most remarkable, most American, lives ever lived, I want to suggest four key lessons (among hundreds) that we can all learn from John Lewis’ life and work.
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