Reform Jews participated in a call-in against genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Jews around the country joined in the effort on Tuesday by calling members of Congress targeted by the “Save Darfur” coalition. A similar call-in in October helped bring about a Senate bill that would expand funding for peacekeeping in southern Sudan and level penalties on those benefitting from ethnic cleansing there. Tuesday’s call-in was aimed at getting the measure through the House of Representatives. “As Jews, we are intimately acquainted with what happens when otherwise good people are silent in the face of political oppression and violence,” the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center said in a statement. “After years of violence, the people of Darfur can wait no longer for the world to take promised action.”
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