ARZA, the Union for Reform Judaism’s (URJ) Zionist arm, is launching an initiative to make members of Reform synagogues aware of the war without guns that is being waged against Israel, and the details of particular anti-Israel efforts.
It will begin distributing a series of articles to its congregations that describe efforts to delegitimize Israel including boycott, divestiture and sanctions (BDS) campaigns.
This follows on other recent ARZA and URJ statements supporting Israel. Just last week ARZA and the URJ called on its members to write to President Obama to urge him to put an end to a proposed UN resolution condemning Israel and its building on disputed territory.
In January URJ President Eric Yoffie and ARZA President Rabbi Robert Orkand, along with over five hundred “religious and communal leaders representative of the broad spectrum of the American faith community” signed their names to a letter to President Obama seeking clemency for Jonathan Pollard.
Two months ago ARZA issued a statement criticizing UNESCO’s declaration that Rachel’s Tomb is a mosque and a PA study denying the Jewish history of the Temple Mount.
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