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Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, founder and executive director of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), discusses the organization’s work protecting the constitutional right to religious freedom for all members of the United States Armed Forces. A 1977 Honor Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Mikey was named one of the 50 most influential Jews in America by the Forward Jewish newspaper and was honored by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice with the Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk-Taker... Read More

The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case which will have major implications for the separation of church and state. The question at hand? Whether the City of Philadelphia can stop funding a private, faith-based foster care agency that won’t adopt out to same-sex couples, in violation of the City’s nondiscrimination regulations. Another case working its way to the Court is Maddonna v. Dept. of Health and Human Services, where a South... Read More

Alison Gill, Vice President of Legal and Policy at American Atheists, walks us through the new report on state-level religious freedom challenges and the concerns for all Americans who support separation of church and state, including those in the Jewish community. In conversation with Jews for a Secular Democracy’s Sarah Levin, with Q&A from webinar attendees.

Learn how close the religious right is from overturning women’s hard-won freedoms and how we can advocate, as Jews, for bodily autonomy. A conversation and Q&A with representatives from two outstanding organizations on the frontline of this battle: Shannon Russell serves as the National Council of Jewish Women’s (NCJW) Legislative Counsel, leading federal advocacy efforts surrounding the priority issue of reproductive health, rights, and justice. Scott Ruskay-Kidd serves as Senior Staff Attorney for Judicial Strategy with the Center for Reproductive... Read More