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.
Joint URJ-CCAR statement on 'Upgraded Palestinian Status at the United Nations'
Background
Affordable Housing
60th General Assembly
November 1989
New Orleans, Louisiana
Resolution on Supporting Those Affected by the Opioid Crisis
The causes of the opioid crisis are diverse, including pharmaceutical companies’ aggressive sales tactics, over-prescription of opioids by doctors, the ease of purchasing illicit drugs, stigma associated with seeking help, ongoing economic dislocation, and a broken criminal justice system that prioritizes punishment over treatment.
War in Iraq 2007
Resolution on the War in Iraq 2007
Union for Reform Judaism
Executive Committee
March 12, 2007
Resolution on Protecting Individuals at Risk of Deportation from the United States
We are instructed in the Holiness Code to treat the strangers in our midst with justice and compassion: "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall do him no wrong. The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Leviticus 19:33).
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