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Current Civil Rights Issues
From ensuring the right to vote for all citizens to ending racial profiling, the Reform Movement fights for equality for all individuals and communities. Some of the gravest issues facing the civil rights community today are concerns about the rights of minorities.
Statement of Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs Responding to the Mass Shooting in El Paso, TX
"Clergy colleagues throughout El Paso will faithfully and lovingly hold up the families of the slain and wounded. So too our hearts – indeed the hearts and prayers of all people of good conscience across the nation – are with those families."
Reform Movement Leader Responds to Tragic Shooting at Jewish Community Sites in Kansas
Washington, DC, April 13, 2014 --In response to today's shootings at several Jewish communal institutions in Overland Park, KS, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
Responding to the Tragic Shooting at Jewish Community Sites in Kansas
In response to today's shootings at several Jewish communal institutions in Overland Park, KS, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
Reform Leader Responds to Tragic Shooting at Jewish Community Sites
In response to today's shootings at several Jewish communal institutions in Overland Park, KS, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
Jewish Values and Position of the Reform Movement: Reproductive Rights
The Reform Movement's advocacy around reproductive rights is grounded in careful reading of text and tradition. The rabbis teach that life is sacred, and held that the life and well-being of an existing life must be prioritized over the possibility of potential life.
Jewish Leaders' Letter to Under Secretary Sigal P. Mandelker
Dear Under Secretary Mandelker,
Background on Civil Rights
The Reform Movement works on a variety of civil rights issues including LGBT rights, hate crimes legislation, the death penalty and other criminal justice reforms, and Native American rights.
Background on Child Soliders
Since the end of the Cold War, many of the ethnic, nationalist, and religious conflicts have been fought by warlords who have little interest in the Geneva Conventions which protect citizens? basic rights.
7 Things to Know About Jewish Genetic Diseases
Genetics may seem complicated, but even simple messaging can go a long way toward informing members of the Jewish community, especially when it comes to genetic disorders that are more common among Jews than in the general population.