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Core Resources
Abortion-focused LEAD! Organizing Skills for Grassroots Advocates webinar recordings:
An extensive source sheet
An annotated source sheet for use in teaching
Abortion and Jewish Values Toolkit
Factsheets on the Hyde Amendment, the HEAL Act, and other relevant legislation
We Testify: Stories & Discussion Questions
D’vrei Torah and Essays
Sermon Round-Up on Reproductive Rights from the Women’s Rabbinic Network (WRN), offers a wealth of Torah, including writing on Parshat Beresit, Lech Lecha, Emor, and Behukotai.
Abortion Activism Brought Me Back to Judaism, on Parshat Shemot, by Nina Henry
Judaism and Reproductive Rights: Parshat Mishpatim, by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch
Public Responsibility: From Biblical Consent to Planned Parenthood, on Parshat Ki Tetzei, by Isabel Kirsch
The Family Secret That Made Me A Proponent for Choice, Amy Y. Yoffie
Reproductive Rights in Texas… Here I Am, Gloria Garcia Litt
What It Was Like When Abortion Was a Crime, Rabbi Simeon J, Maslin
Why Roe v. Wade is a First Amendment Fight, Sheila Katz
Why Are Jews So Pro-Choice, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Say Goodbye to Roe v. Wade? First, Learn Your Greek, Rabbi Raysh Weiss
Having the Constitution to choose, Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky and Beth Gendler
Jewish support for abortion is being drowned out. We can change that, Rabbi Hara Person
The Jewish Case for Abortion Rights, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and Sheila Katz
Jewish Resources
Rituals and Liturgy
Ritual for Abortion, Deborah Eisenbach-Budner with Rabbi Susan Schnur
Abortion Ritual, Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael
Act of Dedication After a Therapeutic Abortion, Vienna Cobb Anderson
Tekhine for Planned Parenthood, Rabbi Ariana Katz
Blessing for a Doctor’s Appointment and Visit, Devon Spier
Books
Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature, Ronit Irshai
To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, Patricia A. Relf, Doris Andrea Dirks
Alliances, Tom Davis
Programming
Birthright: A War Story Documentary Screening and Discussion
Curriculum: A Reconstructionist Approach to Understanding Abortion, Rabbi Nicole Wilson-Spiro
Denominational Statements
Rabbinical Assembly Statement on Reproductive Freedom and Resolution on Reproductive Freedom in the United States
Union of Reform Judaism Resolution on Reproductive Rights and the Women’s Rabbinic Network Statement on Legislation Limiting and Banning Abortion
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association on the Right to Reproductive Choice and Abortion Rights