Washington, D.C., July 6, 2016 – In response to the release of the draft 2016 Democratic Party Platform, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner issued the following statement:
Summer in Israel is probably best known for days at the beach, hiking in the hills and the many foreign tourists who come to visit the country. But the summer is also a critical time for Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, which meets for a three-month session..
This post originally appeared on the Israel Religious Action Center's newsletter, The Pluralist.
The fourth book of the Torah has different names in English (“Numbers”) and Hebrew (“Bamidbar” - “In the Desert”).
For a number of years, activists seeking to damage Israel’s legitimacy and standing in the world have mounted a campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction the Jewish state. Reform Movement fervently opposes the BDS Movement, which has been working on...