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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.

New York Jews For A Secular Democracy Cohort welcomes Policy Counsel from the New York Civil Liberties Union Ali Bohm. Ali speaks on a bill requiring hospitals to disclose which services they deny based on religious preference.
We also welcome David Golvner of Yaffed who discussed the lack of access to secular education in Othordox Yeshivot.

Recorded April 6th 2022

On February 17th 2022,  Sarah Levin and Paul Golin of Jews for A Secular Democracy joined John Cohen and  Shannon  Saul of Keshet, a Jewish LGBTQ Equality Organization. They discussed the fight for representation and how LGBTQ rights is a separation of church and state issue.

Congressman Jamie Raskin accepts the inaugural Jews for A Secular Democracy Constitutional Defender Award
Presented by Paul Golin
Recorded December 5th 2021 in Silver Spring, Maryland

Sarah Levin Interviews Monica Miller

The Legal Director and Senior Counsel at the American Humanist Association (AHA) and an Attorney Consultant at the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP). Monica serves as the Executive Director of the Humanist Legal Society and the Vice President of Humanist Global Charity.

- Served as lead counsel in over 30 federal cases, including before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits. 

- Presented oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (twice), Fifth Circuit, Ninth Circuit, and Eleventh Circuit. 

- Appeared live on Fox News and MSNBC, as well as local television stations and radio shows, and am regularly quoted by national and local media outlets throughout the country, including Fox News, NPR, ABC, NBC, Aljazeera, USA Today, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the National Law Journal, among many others.

Recorded November 9th 2021

Paul Golin, Executive Director of the Society For Humanistic Judaism walks us through the first major poll of the Jewish community in a decade and what it means.

Shannon Russell, National Council For Jewish Women

Scott Ruskey Kidd,  Center for Reproductive Rights

Paul Golin interviews Mickey Weinstein