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Call With Us Sept 17

UPCOMING—Call With Us: Three Calls for Equality, Freedom and the Vote

19 Aug 2026
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As we approach a new Jewish year, the High Holidays invite us to reflect on who we have been, who we want to become and how we can help repair the world around us. This year, Jews for a Secular Democracy and Keshet are turning that reflection into action. This special Call With Us will explain how to talk to friends and family about still participating in an imperfect democracy.  Defending our rights and freedoms often requires us to vote...
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Talk To Your Sheriff

Talk to Your Sheriff Election Pledge Movement Call

28 Jul 2026
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Jews for a Secular Democracy is proud to cosponsor the Talk to Your Sheriff Election Pledge Movement Call, sponsored and hosted by The Workers Circle. Sign up at: https://www.mobilize.us/theworkerscircle/event/986906/?utm_source=JSD As the country approaches a critical election season, communities have an opportunity to engage one of their most powerful local elected officials: the sheriff. The call will launch the Sheriff Pledge for Free & Fair Elections, a nationwide effort encouraging sheriffs to reaffirm publicly their commitment to upholding the Constitution, protecting free and fair elections,...
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Voting booths

Voting is a Jewish Thing: How to Protect Elections

20 Jul 2026
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Our sacred texts are full of evidence that voting is a Jewish value and a mitzvah. The prophet Jeremiah wrote about how we are to engage in, and contribute to, the communities where we live. (Jeremiah 29:4-7). Rabbi Hillel urges us to never separate ourselves from the community. (Pirkei Avot 2:4) Rabbi Yitzhak teaches us that we can’t appoint a leader without the consultation and agreement of the community (Berachot 55a). But is voting enough? Voting is not only a right, but also a...
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Jews for a Secular Democracy Condemns Supreme Court Ruling Excluding Transgender Athletes

30 Jun 2026
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June 30, 2026 – Jews for a Secular Democracy condemns today’s Supreme Court ruling permitting states to categorically exclude transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s school sports. In West Virginia v. B.P.J., decided together with Little v. Hecox, the Court held that Title IX permits schools to define separate athletic teams according to biological sex and that the West Virginia and Idaho laws do not violate the Equal Protection Clause. This ruling is about far more than school...
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June 1 Call With Us

Call With Us: Protect LGBTQ+ Families and Defend True Religious Freedom!

29 May 2026
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You can watch the full video on YouTube here. In partnership with Keshet, this “Call With Us!” session will focus on the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act and what’s at stake for religious freedom, church–state separation, and civil rights. Register here! Children deserve safe, loving homes—and families deserve to be treated equally under the law. Yet in many states, taxpayer-funded agencies can refuse to work with LGBTQ+ parents and others, citing religious beliefs. This legislation would “prohibit...
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Paul Golin with Randi Weingarten

Jews for a Secular Democracy Hosts Sold-Out Fundraiser

21 May 2026
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“Dana Nessel and Randi Weingarten joined JFASD leaders to discuss religious liberty, democracy and public education. The driving imperative of Jews for a Secular Democracy (JFASD) is “there is no religious liberty without the separation of religion and government, and that religious freedom is not free.” On April 26, JFASD hosted a sold-out fundraiser to support its work. “Jews for a Secular Democracy is Humanistic Judaism’s pluralistic social justice initiative, which seeks to bring diverse Jewish perspectives to the separation...
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Talk to your Sheriff

Talk to Your Sheriff

04 May 2026
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When local law enforcement becomes an extension of ICE, communities suffer. That is why Jews for a Secular Democracy is cosponsoring the Talk to Your Sheriff Movement Call on Monday, May 11 at 7 PM ET. We’ll join partners from across the country to learn how communities can demand accountability, protect constitutional rights, and push back against policies that endanger immigrant families. This work is part of the broader fight for democracy, pluralism, religious freedom, and church–state separation. RSVP: bit.ly/TTYSMovCall
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