Embodying The Values We Cherish Most
Reposted from Religion News Service The most effective response America can give to the 9/11 terrorist attacks is to affirm our nation’s core values of freedom and liberty for all–including the...
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by Rabbi Rebecca Yaël SchorrOriginally posted on Frume Sarah’s World [via RJ.org] Jewess.Zionist.American. That’s me. Just so I cannot be accused of anything later… On May 30, 1806, by Imperial and...
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Mosque on Park Place: Round Up
Surely, you’ve been unable to avoid all the frenzy surrounding the so-called “Ground Zero” Mosque to be built on Park Place in lower Manhattan. Politicians and pundits on all sides of the debate have...
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Securing the Right of Religious Freedom and Safety
The recent wave of hate crimes against American Muslims and nationwide protests against the construction of mosques is alarming to say the least. From coast to coast, mosques are being vandalized,...
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Praying With Our Feet
Jonathan Prosnit is a 5th year Rabbinical Student at HUC-JIR in New York. He is the student representative from HUC to the Commission on Social Action (CSA). Over 40 Hebrew Union College (HUC)...
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We Mourn the Death of Shabbaz Bhatti
On Tuesday, March 1, Pakistan’s Federal Minister of Minority Affairs, Shabbaz Bhatti, was found dead in his car. He was shot eight times in an assassination that threatens Pakistan’s stability. Bhatti...
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Religious Discrimination, Not A Thing of the Past
On Tuesday I attended an exciting press conference and briefing organized to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 8802, also called the Fair Employment Act. This...
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One Nation Under…Who?
We can do it on autopilot. For some, the words no longer mean anything, the intonations come out automatically. No matter what time, no matter what age, no matter what state, many Americans can...
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