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Jewish Rohingya Justice Network Supports Bipartisan Legislation on Burma
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, as members of the Jewish Rohingya Justice Network (JRJN), issued this statement following the introduction of the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act of 2019 (S. 1186) in the U.S. Senate:
Posted on: 2019/04/18 - 11:11am
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Letter to Tennessee Legislation on Child Welfare
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were signatories to a letter objecting to the Tennessee legislature’s proposed legislation that would allow federally funded foster care and adoption agencies to use religious freedom to justify taxpayer-funded religious discrimination.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-tennessee-legislation-child-welfare
Posted on: 2019/04/29 - 2:53pm
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Letter to New York Times Regarding Antisemitic Cartoon
Reconstructing Judaism was a signatory to a letter that the the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) sent to the New York Times Executive Editor condemning the Antisemitic cartoon published on April 25, 2019. JCPA, an umbrella organization of the Jewish community relations field, issued the letter signed by 54 local Jewish Community Relations Councils, 14 National member agencies, and 13 other organizations. The letter urged the New York Times to take tangible steps to ensure that such inflammatory material will not be published in the future.
Posted on: 2019/05/03 - 12:16am
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Reconstructing Jewish Communities Panel Learning Module
On the opening night of the Reconstructing Judaism Convention in November of 2018, an extraordinary panel of rabbis reflected on a crucial question: how do we reconstruct Jewish communities in this time and place, to meet tomorrow’s challenges? We’ve divided up the conversation into five sessions, and supplied material for reflection and discussion. We hope you’ll find this conversation as thought-provoking as we did.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/learn/convention-community-panel
Posted on: 2019/05/10 - 3:20pm
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Statement Supporting Equality Act
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/statement-supporting-equality-act
Posted on: 2019/05/17 - 1:49pm
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Letter Opposing Rollback of Predatory Lending Protections
Posted on: 2019/05/17 - 4:56pm
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Endorsement of House Resolution in Support of Two-State Solution
Reconstructing Judaism joins nine other Jewish organizations in endorsing House Resolution 326 (text and co-sponsors), which reaffirms longstanding bipartisan support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and opposes any US actions that would encourage or endorse unilateral Israeli annexations in the West Bank.
Posted on: 2019/06/19 - 12:17pm
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Joint Letter on Refugee Policy
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association have joined with 166 national, state and local Jewish organizations and institutions in urging the United States to meet the refugee resettlement admissions goal of 30,000 for fiscal year 2019 and to return to historic norms next year.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/joint-letter-refugee-policy
Posted on: 2019/08/08 - 10:28am
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Brief Asking Federal Court to Reverse Ruling Allowing Strip Searches of Female Inmates As Training Exercise
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Assocation joined an amicus brief in Henry v. Hulett submitted by Muslim Advocates, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to re-hear and reverse a ruling that found that staff at an Illinois prison did not violate the Constitution when they forced female inmates to engage in a deeply humiliating and dehumanizing strip search as part of a training exercise.
Posted on: 2019/08/30 - 11:31am
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Statement by Congregation Dor Hadash on Justice Department Decision to Seek Death Penalty
Yesterday, we learned that the U.S. Justice Department will seek the death penalty against the suspected shooter in the 2018 mass shooting that devastated three congregations and rocked the entire North American Jewish community.
Reconstructing Judaism is proud to share this moving statement from our Pittsburgh affiliate, Congregation Dor Hadash. And we note that Jewish tradition is weighted heavily against the use of the death penalty.
Posted on: 2019/08/27 - 12:00pm
