Whereas our Torah asserts that all humanity is created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s Divine Image and
Whereas rabbinic tradition strongly emphasizes the importance of kavod habriyot (human dignity) and a 2006 teshuva of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards cites this principal to annul the rabbinic prohibitions relating to homosexuality and
“Do not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 23:9)
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly is a member of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable whose signature campaign this year is immigration reform and was one of the original signatories to HIAS’ We Were Strangers Too Campaign;
