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URJ and CCAR Statement on Israel Under Attack

Contact: Lauren Theodore, LTheodore@URJ.org, 212-650-4154

May 6, 2019

We hope and pray that the cease fire holds, and at the same time, the Union for Reform Judaism and Central Conference of American Rabbis deplore the massive rocket attack unleashed upon Israel and its citizens by Islamic Jihad and Hamas, the terrorist clients of the Iranian regime, which controls the Gaza Strip.

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Statement On Israel Election: URJ President Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Contact: Lauren Theodore, LTheodore@URJ.org, 212-650-4154

April 10, 2019

"The Israeli elections show that the country is divided on issues of critical importance to the future of the State..."

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Dear Bibi, We're Concerned

March 20, 2019

We hope you “recognize how some of your government’s policies both strain our connection to the Jewish State and hamper our ability to advocate for Israel’s well-being,” write over 100 Jewish millennials affiliated with a broad swath of American Jewish organizations in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, delivered today, five days before his speech to AIPAC’s Policy Conference in Washington.

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Why You Should Consider Going to the AIPAC Conference This Year

Rabbi Josh Weinberg

March 5, 2019

Join us in late March, just two weeks before the Israeli general elections, for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference in Washington, D.C.

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Reform Movement Statement on Prime Minister Netanyahu's Initiative to Bring the Racist Otzma Yehudit Party into the Government

Contact: Lauren Theodore, LTheodore@URJ.org, 212-650-4154

February 26, 2019

The Reform Movement strongly condemns the recent initiative of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring loyalists of racist Rabbi Meir Kahane into the Knesset.