What the Movement for Black Lives Means to Jews
Erin Ben-Moche
June 2, 2020
“We need and deserve to be heard,” 18-year-old Erykah Gaston, who is black and Jewish, said. “We deserve to fight for a change.”
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Jewish Law-Halacha and the Iran Agreement
Jewish Journal
July 13, 2015
It\’s question on everyone’s mind. Will the Iran deal push it back from the nuclear edge and become a pathway to moderation and the global community. Or, is it a dangerous agreement, a replay of Chamberlain’s tragic deal with the Germany that paved the way for war.
Donation of Organs Has Support of Most Rabbis
Jewish Journal
March 12, 2009
It was a decision based on a widespread misunderstanding in the Jewish community, locally and nationally. A young boy not yet 10 years old lay brain dead in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a severe head injury in an accident. The attending physician explained to the parents that their son was brain dead.\n
Jewish Groups Work Against AIDS
E. B. Solomont
December 4, 2003
Jewish groups from across the denominational spectrum are calling on the Jewish community to help fight AIDS in Africa and other places hit hard by the pandemic. An open letter to the Jewish community issued by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, together with Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist Jewish leaders, called on \”synagogues and rabbis to renew and affirm our commitment to ending the AIDS crisis in Africa and elsewhere around the world.\”
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