Health Care and Health Insurance
Judaism teaches us that when there is a way to alleviate suffering, not to do so is to deny our responsibility to humankind. The question "Am I my brother's keeper?" has always been answered affirmatively by Jewish tradition.
Breast Cancer, Genetic Testing, and Health Insurance Discrimination
Adopted by the General Assembly
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
October 29-November 2, 1997 Dallas
Confronting the AIDS Crisis
59th General Assembly
November 1987
Chicago, Illinois
AIDS Committee and Research
Board of Trustees
December 1986
White Plains, New York
Traumatic Brain Injury
Adopted by the Union for Reform Judaism Board of Trustees
June 1, 2008
Submitted by the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and the Committee on Jewish Family Concerns
Divestment from Sudan
In the 2003 Resolution on the Need for Action in Sudan, the Union for Reform Judaism asserted its support for the people of Darfur and called upon the United States and Canadian governments and the United Nations to use diplomatic and political means to stop the genocide.
Crown Heights
Resolution of 32nd Council on Lynching
BE IT RESOLVED, That the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, in the spirit of the traditional regard for our faith for the sanctity of law, especially where the protection of human life is concerned, or the protection of the rights of the minority, and with a sacred regard for civil liberty a
Vigilantism
51st General Assembly
November l97l
Los Angeles, CA
Israel and the Peace Process: The Urgent Need for Honesty, the Urgent Need for Progress
Background
As the bloodshed in Israel continues, and as we sit heartbroken before the killing and the terror, this is an appropriate time for reexamining our most fundamental assumptions about the conflict in the Middle East.