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Gun Violence Prevention: Looking Back and Looking Forward
“Don’t stop after beating the swords into ploughshares, don’t stop! Go on beating and make musical instruments out of them. Whoever wants to make war again will have to turn them into ploughshares first.” –Yehuda Amichai
Faith Calling for Gun Violence Prevention Honors Anniversary of Newtown Tragedy
Contact: Sean Thibault or Deborah Goldberg
rac@rac.org | (202) 387-2800
Faiths Calling Campaign Asserts Reform Jewish Movement Commitment to Gun Violence Prevention
Contact: Sean Thibault or Deborah Goldberg
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Join Faiths Calling to Prevent Gun Violence
Jewish tradition teaches that “whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world” (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9).
Ending Gun Violence
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Reform Jewish Community Recommits to Passing Meaningful Legislation to Prevent Gun Violence Following Colorado Shooting
Contact: Sean Thibault or Deborah Goldberg
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Gun Control Legislation
The recent wave of criminal assaults with guns both here and abroad all too tragically dramatize the hideous crime this nation continues to perpetuate against itself--its consistent refusal to take effective measures to control the manufacture, sale, and ownership of guns.
Violence Against Women
Adopted at the 61st General Assembly
November, 1991
Baltimore, MD
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Women's Health
Adopted at the 62nd General Assembly
October, 1993
San Francisco, CA
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Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign
The recently issued report of the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders declares as its basic conclusion: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal".
