March for Our Lives

March for Our Lives, faith leaders call on Florida lawmakers to ‘cease and desist’

By Jack Jenkins — September 15, 2023
(RNS) — 'Instead of focusing on and addressing the real issues, you spend time promoting hate and division, contrary to our deepest religious values,' reads a letter from activists addressed to Florida lawmakers.

The kid who didn’t attend the march because of his bar mitzvah

By Jeffrey Salkin — March 25, 2018
(RNS) — Every revolution starts with the young. This one resonated from the lips of a bar mitzvah boy.

Urged by their youth, faith groups flocked to the March for Our Lives

By Jack Jenkins — March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The March for Our Lives, a protest led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students geared toward ending gun violence, drew an estimated 800,000 participants on Saturday in Washington, D.C., according to organizers.

As a rabbi, I will violate the Sabbath to help save lives from gun violence

By Joshua Hammerman — March 20, 2018
(RNS) — Yes, this march is so important that I — a rabbi — am going to blatantly disrupt God’s holy Sabbath. But if the ancient rabbinic sages are to be believed, that’s precisely what God wants me to do.
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