How can we best articulate our support for important issues such as church-state separation --and amplify it to more people through op-ed writing and social media platforms? Learn from Carol Robidoux, a multimedia journalist experienced in web content management; RosemarieRung, who had a 25+ year career in corporate communications; and Rick Gold, Florida Jews for a Secular Democracy Coordinator with experience working for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Moderated by Nicole Klein Knight, National Coordinator of Jews for a Secular Democracy, on July 14, 2022.

On June 2, 2022—in front of a live audience at Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield,
Michigan—rabbis from three denominations discussed what the Jewish tradition tells us on key church-state separation issues, including reproductive rights and public funding of private
religious schools. The panelists were Rabbi Brent Gutmann (Reform) of Temple Kol Ami, Rabbi Asher Lopatin (Modern Orthodox) of Kehillat Etz Chayim and AJC of Detroit, and Rabbi Blair Nosanwisch (Conservative) of Adat Shalom Synagogue. Moderated by Nomi Joyrich, Michigan Coordinator of the Jews for a Secular Democracy initiative.

Child marriage is still legal in all but seven U.S. states! Fraidy Reiss, the Founder and Executive Director of Unchained At Last, shares her remarkable personal journey out of forced marriage as a teenager growing up in the ultra-Orthodox community, and discusses the important legislative successes her organization has had so far in fighting this human-rights abuse. Fraidy Reiss is interviewed on behalf of Jews for a Secular Democracy by Paul Golin, Executive Director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, on June 28, 2022.