TzedekGeorgia
A Reform Jewish Advocacy Group

The Southern District Social Action Committee of the Union for Reform Judaism is enlisting its 18 congregations in Georgia in an effort to lobby the state legislature on issues consistent with the Jewish mandate of Tikun Olam, repairing the world. The group is recruiting members from of each of its congregations to advocate on bills concerning social justice in the state legislature.

The goal is to have delegations from all of our congregations to meet with their Georgia State Legislators at the Capitol. Participants will be trained on how to advocate effectively.

People who are oppressed and poor, who cannot plead for themselves, nor pay others to plead for them, need us to speak for them. Proverbs 31:9 is a teaching that God expects us to speak up on behalf of the vulnerable in our society to government legislators who make the civil laws that we live by. Poverty and hunger in our country and state have increased significantly. 

You can join the great tradition of Jewish social justice advocates from Moses to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel who spoke truth to power to enact just laws or to oppose or repeal unjust ones. While the URJ’s Religious Action Center in Washington, DC engages in the legislative process nationally, many social justice issues are resolved at the state level. The issues that we will lobby for or against must be compatible with the positions taken by the URJ resolutions adopted by at URJ Biennials or resolutions passed by the URJ Board of Trustees.

To join the effort and for more information please contact tzedekgeorgia@yahoo.com.

TzedekGeorgia is a project of the URJ Southern Region Social Action Committee.

Justice, justice shall you pursue. (Deuteronomy 16:20)