Rabbi Michael Namath is program director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. The Religious Action Center is the Washington, D.C., office of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, a joint office of the Union for Reform Judaism (representing 900 congregations with 1.5 million Reform Jews) and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, whose membership includes more than 1,800 rabbis. Read a summary of this group’s advocacy on behalf of higher wages. Read Namath’s statement from a June 29, 2006, news conference asking the U.S. Senate to raise the minimum wage – in which he says that helping people become self-reliant is the highest form of tzedakah, or charity, in Judaism.
| Website | http://rac.org/aboutrac/leadershipandstaff/rmi/ |
| Email address | mnamath@rac.org |
| Phone number | 202-387-2800 |
| Categories | Government & politics, Law & courts, Poverty & welfare, Society & culture |
| Locations | United States of America, Washington, D.C. |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Judaism |
| Languages | English |