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Resolution in Support of Darfur and South Sudan Independence
April 6, 2011
“There is a real danger that the media, United States Government and international community will lose focus in the weeks and months ahead. During this critical time, we need your help to keep the spotlight on Sudan.” Mark Lotwis, Save Darfur...
Resolution on the Rohingya Crisis
February 28, 2018
Whereas the Rohingya, a Muslim minority resident population in what is now Myanmar/Burma that dates back to the 15th century, has suffered discrimination and persecution since at least the end of World II and 1948, when Myanmar/Burma gained its...
Resolution on Global Antisemitism
March 26, 2019
Whereas the hatred of Jews is almost as ancient as Judaism itself and
Whereas the Anti-Defamation League’s 2015 Global 100 survey found that more than one billion humans harbor antisemitic feelings and has determined that one-quarter of Western...
Resolution on the Prevention of Childhood Abuse and the Support of Survivors of Childhood Abuse
March 24, 2020
Whereas all human beings are holy and created in the image of God (Gen 1:27).
Whereas our children are our future and we have a responsibility to protect them.
Whereas childhood abuse inflicts lifelong trauma on survivors.
Whereas the...
Resolution on the Chinese Genocide of the Uighur Minority
March 24, 2020
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly deeply values and affirms our Torah’s profoundly humanitarian mitzvot such as “One law for the native and the stranger among you” (Exodus 12:49), “The stranger….you shall love as yourself” (Leviticus 19:34) and many...
Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
May 6, 2020
“Great is human dignity, since it overrides a negative precept of the Torah.” (Sanhedrin 19b)
Whereas we hold the concepts of Tzelem Elohim and k’vod habri’ot as sacred and foundational, believing that each individual was uniquely created to...
Resolution Outlining Legislative Priorities to Combat the Food Insecurity Crisis in the United States
March 15, 2021
לֹ֧א תְאַמֵּ֣ץ אֶת־לְבָבְךָ֗ וְלֹ֤א תִקְפֹּץ֙ אֶת־יָ֣דְךָ֔ מֵאָחִ֖יךָ הָאֶבְיֽוֹן... כִּֽי־פָתֹ֧חַ תִּפְתַּ֛ח אֶת־יָדְךָ֖ ל֑וֹ
פָּ֠תֹחַ תִּפְתַּ֨ח אֶת־יָדְךָ֜ לְאָחִ֧יךָ לַעֲנִיֶּ֛ךָ וּלְאֶבְיֹנְךָ֖ בְּאַרְצֶֽךָ׃
Whereas we...
Resolution on Right to Legal and Accessible Abortion in the United States
March 15, 2021
“If anyone kills any human being, he shall be put to death” (Leviticus 24:17). In the Mekhilta d’Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (21:12), the midrash teaches that a fetus is not a living person: “The Torah says ‘[one who strikes] a man’...
Resolution Against Sexual Harassment and/or Assault
March 15, 2021
Whereas the Torah teaches us that we are all created בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים (betzelem elohim, “in the image of God”), and thus it follows that Rabbi Eliezer said (Pirkei Avot 2:10), “יְהִי כְבוֹד חֲבֵרְךָ חָבִיב עָלֶיךָ כְּשֶׁלָּךְ” (“Let your fellow's...
Dignity and Rights of Transgender Individuals
January 9, 2026
Resolution in Support of the Dignity and Rights of Transgender and Other LGBTQ+ Individuals
Background
Across the United States, proposed legislation seeks to undermine the dignity and deny the fundamental rights of transgender and...