Read a July 23, 2012, story at Tablet Magazine, an online Jewish periodical, titled “Banning Guns Isn’t the Answer: Stricter gun-control laws won’t prevent the next mass shooting, but better mental-health policies might.”

The Awareness Center was the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault, an international organization that addresses sexual violence in Jewish communities. It had a certification program for rabbis interested in working with victims of sexual violence. It closed in 2014, but the site is still provided for educational and historical purposes.

The Rev. Marie M. Fortune is founder and senior analyst at the Faith Trust Institute in Seattle, which works to end sexual and domestic violence, particularly in faith communities. She co-edited Forgiveness and Abuse: Jewish and Christian Reflections and is a United Church of Christ minister.

Read an Aug. 19, 2012,  Jewish Daily Forward story about Reform and Conservative rabbinical leaders calling for increased gun controls in the wake of the spate of shootings.

Read a Nov. 13, 2008, story in The Forward, a Jewish weekly, “Black, Jewish Vote for Obama May Signal a Renewed Tie: But the Historic Allies Still Disagree on Many Issues.”

Rabbi Jonathan Klein is executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, an interfaith group from the Los Angeles area that advocates on behalf of the working poor.

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 […]

The Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. The institute works toward inclusion and equality for LGBT people. Contact director Joel L. Kushner.

Statement released by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation (formerly the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance) in 2006 and updated in 2009. The statement is a response to the Evangelical Climate Initiative’s “Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.” The Alliance uses the statement to outline their disagreement with the ECI’s conclusion that climate change […]