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The RAC mobilizes around federal, state, and local legislation; supports and develops congregational leaders; and organizes communities to create a world overflowing with justice, compassion, and peace.
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What We Do. For more than six decades, the Religious Action...
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The ancient command “Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof! Justice, justice...
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Union for Reform Judaism; Religious Action Center; Home;...
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Audacious Hospitality is the Reform Jewish Movement's...
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The Torah teaches to accept others without prejudice and to...
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Eighty years ago, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus rescued 50...
- Racial Justice
The Union for Reform Judaism shares a robust list of books,...
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The Reform Movement's positions on reproductive rights are...
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The Reform Movement has been advocating for LGBTQ+ rights...
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www .rac .org. The Religious Action Center ( RAC) is the political and legislative outreach arm of Reform Judaism in the United States. The Religious Action Center is operated under the auspices of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, a joint body of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Judaism.
- 1961; 62 years ago
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- Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Washington D. C. 21,658 likes · 26 talking about this · 919 were here. The RAC is proud to be a Jewish voice for justice in the nation's capital. Questions?...
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- Reform Once Rejected Traditional Practices
- Outreach Has Been and Remains A Feature of Reform Judaism
- Enter The Ritual Revolution
- Reform Political Issues
- Dissonance: Zionism and Left Politics
The Reform movement is the largest in American Jewry, with 1.5 million members and more than 900 congregations. Its theological basis is that, while the moral teachings that Moses received at Mt. Sinai are eternal, Judaism is an ever-evolving set of practices meant to be explored anew in each generation. When Reform cohered in the United States in ...
Reform Judaism is known for opening its doors to those who might have otherwise felt unwelcome in a Jewish context. In 1983 the Reform movement ruled that people who were born to a Jewish father but a Gentile mother can be considered Jewish, a departure from the traditional teaching of matrilineal descent. The movement also welcomes gay and lesbian...
At the same time, though, the Reform movement is becoming more traditional, in the sense of adding more Hebrew to services and incorporating more observances into the average family’s Jewish life. A generational split is emerging, with younger Reform Jews hungry for more traditional ways to incorporate Jewish meaning into their lives, while the old...
The family, home, and synagogue aren’t the only arenas in which Reform Jews are making a mark. The public square and political arena are also familiar places for the movement. The Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism (RAC) continues, as it has since 1962, to advocate for a variety of issues that its leaders say are integral to a Jewish sense ...
Zionism, or the support of the state of Israel, is also an interesting issue to watch in the Reform context. The movement has, especially in recent years, been extremely devoted to Israel, urging young Reform Jews to travel there with youth groups and offering synagogue programs on the nation’s history and culture as well as sponsoring trips to Isr...
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Jun 28, 2021 · “In what ways are we complicit with white supremacy in the synagogue?” says Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, in a panel on racial justice,...
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. @racrj ‧. 372 subscribers ‧ 220 videos. For more than 50 years, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (or "the RAC") has...
