The Association of Humanistic Rabbis joins with other voices to express its opposition to the Executive Order banning refugees, travelers and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.  

 

Our tradition reminds us that “we were once strangers in a strange land” and our history teaches that we have been immigrants and refugees to America.  Our compassion and concern for all people is a bedrock principle of Secular Humanistic Judaism.  As leaders in this movement, we condemn this Executive Order as written, as applied, and as understood by its authors as a ban on Muslims seeking to enter this country.

 

We stand with those who are courageously using every legal, moral and ethical means to overturn it.

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- February 2017