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By Steven Beck

I have been on dozens of Freedom Rides in the year I have been working at IRAC.

By Wes Peskin

S’mores, Capitol Hill, and Judaism: Can you figure out what they all have in common? For me, they are some of the most important aspects of my experience as a participant in the Religious Action Center’s Machon Kaplan work/study internship

Photo above courtesy of TIME magazine.

Voters cast their ballots in Virginia, October 2008. Photo credit: Hyungwon Kang / Reuters.

Among my many lasting childhood memories from Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, is the perennial pilgrimage I would make

By Rabbi Howard I. Needleman

There is a growing fervor among conservative legislators and citizens that they were wronged by the vote of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on the constitutionality of Obama’s health care legislation. There are recent

Below are reflections on the recently failed votes on divestment from Israel at the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly by Fred Guttman, a rabbi at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, NC and a member of the Union for Reform Judaism’s Commission on Social

By Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz

Photos from the 2011 Willimantic WILI 4th of July Boom Box Parade.

Here’s my family’s July 4^th ritual: In the morning, we put out the American flag and sing Phil Ochs’ song “Power and Glory”:

Come on and take a walk with me

She only says a few words, but our friends’ granddaughter Stella has one expression down cold: “Uh-oh.” She says it when she drops a toy on the floor or sees a dog trying to sneak food off the table.

By Manda Graizel, the Machon Kaplan Program Coordinator.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is given. The world is judged by grace, yet all is according to the amount of action. —Pirke Avot 3:19

We are a people of action.

I participated in the Greater Philadelphia Food Stamp Challenge a few weeks ago.