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  1. Letter of Concern Regarding Human Rights in Burma

    Reconstructing Judaism is among 46 organizations signing onto a letter of concern by Human Rights Watch about Burma’s human rights record, addressed to the US House and Senate Armed Services Committees. 

     

    Senator Inhofe, Acting Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee
    Senator Jack Reed, Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee
    Rep. Mac Thornberry, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee
    Rep. Adam Smith, Ranking Member, House Armed Services Committee

     

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-concern-regarding-human-rights-burma

    Posted on: 2018/07/09 - 9:46am

  2. Jewish Communal Letter on Refugee Admissions

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were among the 36 Jewish organizations that signed onto a letter urging President Trump to change his stated intent to drastically cut the number of refugees admissed to the United States.

    The letter is attached above as a PDF. Its text follows:

    Dear Mr. President:

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/jewish-communal-letter-refugee-admissions

    Posted on: 2018/08/16 - 12:00pm

  3. Letter on Trans Rights to HHS

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were among sixteen national Jewish organizations authoring a joint letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, expressing opposition to a restrictive legal definition of sex that would effectively define out of existence the gender identities of millions of people. The letter is attached as a PDF, and reads in part:

     

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-opposing-plans-adopt-legal-definition-sex

    Posted on: 2018/12/10 - 3:02pm

  4. Letter Opposing Repeal of Johnson Amendment

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were among 109 organizations sending a letter to the House of Representatives, urging them not to repeal or weaken the “Johnson Amendment” that currently ensures that tax-exempt organizations do not support or oppose candidates for political office. The text of the letter is included as a PDF above, and reproduced below.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-opposing-repeal-johnson-amendment

    Posted on: 2018/12/17 - 6:00pm

  5. Bladensburg Amicus Brief

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association joined an amicus curiae brief filed by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm that religious symbols erected on public property and maintained with taxpayer dollars are unconstitutional.   

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/bladensburg-cross-amicus-brief

    Posted on: 2019/01/30 - 6:58pm

  6. Letter Opposing Repeal of Johnson Amendment (April 2019)

    (Updated in April 2019 to reflect the final version of the letter.)

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were among 131 organizations sending a letter to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committes, urging them not to repeal or weaken the “Johnson Amendment” that currently ensures that tax-exempt organizations do not support or oppose candidates for political office. The text of the letter is included as a PDF above, and reproduced below. (Footnotes are found only in the PDF version)

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-opposing-repeal-johnson-amendment-april-2019

    Posted on: 2019/02/06 - 3:38pm

  7. Letter on Religious Discrimination in Foster Care

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association joined more than 100 organizations in protest of the recent decision to exempt federally funded foster care agencies in South Carolina from federal religious nondiscrimination protections. The full letter to Secretary Alex Azar of the Department of Health and Human Services is attached above and reproduced in part below.

     

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-religious-discrimination-foster-care

    Posted on: 2019/02/14 - 5:00pm

  8. Statement Opposing Restrictions on Food Aid

    Reconstructing Judaism joined 35 national faith-based groups in a statement opposing attempts to restrict states from providing food aid to the hungry. The letter, drafted by the Interreligious Working Group on Domestic Human Needs, follows:

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/statement-opposing-restrictions-food-aid

    Posted on: 2019/03/15 - 3:29pm

  9. Amicus Brief Affirming Boston Policy Against Endorsing Religious Symbols

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were among fifteen organizations that signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief filed by Americans United in the case of Shurtleff vs. City of Boston, which is pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/amicus-brief-affirming-boston-policy-against-endorsing-religious-symbols

    Posted on: 2019/03/12 - 1:51pm

  10. Letter in support of the Never Again (Holocaust) Education Act

    Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were among more than 300 organizations to support the Never Again Education Act (H.R. 943). The attached letter, sent to the chair and ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, urges the swift passage of the bill, which uses public funding and private donations to provide teachers with resources and training on lessons of the Holocaust and the consequences of bigotry and hate.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-support-never-again-holocaust-education-act

    Posted on: 2019/04/08 - 12:00pm

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