Advocacy

For more than six decades, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (the RAC) has worked to educate, inspire, and mobilize the Reform Jewish community to advocate for social justice. We mobilize around federal, state, and local legislation on more than 70 pressing socio-economic issues, including gun violence prevention, immigration, reproductive rights, and criminal justice reform.

We have been building RAC-FL since 2018 when we organized around the successful passage of Amendment 4. In 2019 we partnered with immigration justice organizations to close the Homestead child detention center. Last year, we worked to turn out voters for the mid-term election, especially those in underrepresented communities.

In 2023-24, we are working with RAC-FL and a broad coalition of partners to put on the ballot in November 2024, a Florida Constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in our state. We are working within Temple Beth Sholom and in our larger community to collect 1 million petitions statewide by December 31, 2023. This will enable all Floridians to determine what rights we want our citizens to have. If you would like to be involved in these efforts, please be in touch with co-chairs Myra Spindel myraspindel@gmail.com and Barbara Gelber barbaragelber2@gmail.com. Once we have enough petitions to get the amendment on the ballot, we will be working in 2024 to educate people about the law and to turn out the vote in November.