Rabbi Billy Dreskin is a rabbi at Woodlands Community Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation in Greenburgh, New York. Below is the sermon he gave on April 13, 2018 in observance of the nationwide Shabbat for Rohingya Rights.

A horrific story of the Holocaust

Photo: Donovan Marks, courtesy of Washington National Cathedral.  

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, made the following statement about the March for Our Lives:

“Students are leading where my generation

Gun violence in America has become consistent, reliable news.

Every year during the third weekend of October, religious organizations and denominations around the country observe the annual Children’s Sabbath, which is sponsored by the Children’s Defense Fund. Entering its 24^th year, the Children’s Sabbath will be taking

Four hundred years ago, the mystics of Tzfat began walking out into the fields to greet Shabbat (many of us reenact this by standing for the last verse of L'cha Dodi).