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Anat Hoffman: A decade of fighting for civil and human rights

This week, Anat Hoffman, executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), celebrated her 10-year anniversary with the organization. Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center (RAC) of Reform Judaism in the US, and Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), offered…

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Added by Arzenu Admin on April 4, 2012 at 8:30pm — No Comments

High Holy Day Campaign for Gilad Shalit

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has launched a High Holy Day campaign for Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas from inside Israeli territory and has been in…

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Added by Arzenu Admin on September 6, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Reform Jews write to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Conversion Bill

The international Reform community is united in its dismay at the recent events relating to the Conversion Bill. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly in the United States, have penned a letter in response to the latest news. Their sentiments are supported by the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis,… Continue

Added by Arzenu Admin on July 12, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments