Social Justice

Cardboard sign reading WE STAND AGAINST RACISM

Announcing the Launch of the Reform Movement's 2021 Racial Justice Campaign: What You Need to Know

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner

Yolanda Savage-Narva

April 6, 2021

This campaign aims to help dismantle systemic racism by educating, inspiring, and empowering individuals and communities to look inwardly to make communal change and outwardly to win legislative change.

Sam Sommer smiling at the camera with his head tilted

Purim

A Promise is a Promise: Our Purim Fundraiser to Cure Childhood Cancers

Rabbi Steven Stark Lowenstein

February 18, 2021

A few hours after 8-year-old Sammy Sommer and his parents were told by their amazing doctor in Milwaukee there would be no more treatment for his acute myelogenous leukemia, I met them for French fries at a hot dog stand in Highland Park.

Top of Washington Monument against a blue sky with pink cherry blossoms blooming in the foreground

d’var Torah

Awakening to the Moral Imperatives of this Moment

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

January 8, 2021

This is a moment that requires extraordinary courage to do the hardest and most transformative social change work. It is for all Americans of conscience to build a more just and compassionate future by facing the truth of our history and our present.

International Religious Freedom

Watch "Healing, Hope, Action," a Reform Jewish Gathering after the U.S. Capitol Insurrection

Kate Bigam Kaput

January 8, 2021

Before the start of Shabbat, the Reform Jewish community hosted a live webinar, "Healing, Hope, Action: A Reform Movement Pre-Shabbat Gathering," sharing a Jewish framing for what we’re experiencing communally and as a country.

Jewish Values

The Tzedek Box: A New Way to Hold Yourself Accountable in the Pursuit of Justice

Andrew K. Mandel

December 21, 2020

What will it take for all of us to pursue the tireless work of tzedek with consistency? It is in this spirit that I invite you to join a new initiative: the Tzedek Box.