✡︎ Shalom and Good Day, Friends ✡︎

The last few weeks have been full of activity, following up with our new friends from Queens, NY, celebrating Passover and enjoying the much anticipated Spring weather.

We've begun producing short videos for our Instagram channel. This is a dynamic social media platform and the current most popular method for sharing information. If you want to share a message with our followers, please contact me and schedule to meet me in our zoom room where I will record your video, and after editing and your approval, will upload it to our Instagram channel and other social media accounts.

https://www.instagram.com/cecilyroutman/

We have lots of news to share about Jewish activity related to abortion legislation from around the country, plus a new blog by our friend Don Belding, a story from Catholic News Agency about a family who risked all to save Jews from genocide in Poland (can we emulate their courage to do the same for unborn children?), a video from Live Action, and the NCJW reaction to the stay on chemical abortion coming out of Texas.

Our Tikvat Rachel healing group meets Sunday April 16, 2023. If you or someone you know is Jewish and suffers after abortion, we invite you to attend.

A warm welcome to our new subscribers.

Cecily

May there be abundant peace from Heaven, and good life upon us and upon all Israel. Amen. 

Oh, My How Times Change!

https://jewishprolifefoundation.org/pro-life-blog/f/oh-my-how-times-change

Hawaii

Hawaii Gov. Green enacts new law expanding abortion access, protect health care providers

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawaii-gov-green-enacts-new-law-expanding-abortion-access-protect-health-care-providers

We grew up next to Josh Green's grandparents. When his grandfather died, the obituary asked that donations be sent to Planned Parenthood of Western PA. His grandson is living the legacy, sad to say.

Edgeworth native Josh Green reflects on his roots while running for Hawaiian office

https://triblive.com/local/sewickley/edgeworth-native-josh-green-reflects-on-his-roots-while-running-for-hawaiian-office/

Connecticut

Connecticut Measure Would Make Killing Babies in Abortions a Constitutional Right

Thank you, Rabbi Leiter!

https://www.lifenews.com/2023/03/21/connecticut-measure-would-make-killing-babies-in-abortions-a-constitutional-right/

We created a blog post with sharing Rabbi Leiter's entire testimony.

Orthodox Rabbi Defends Unborn Babies in Public Hearing

https://jewishprolifefoundation.org/pro-life-blog/f/orthodox-rabbi-defends-unborn-babies-in-public-hearing

North Carolina

The Jewish Response to Reproductive Justice

https://www.carolinajewsforjustice.org/the_jewish_response_to_reproductive_justice

Bill prohibiting abortion after conception filed in NC House

https://www.witn.com/2023/03/29/bill-prohibiting-abortion-after-conception-filed-nc-house/?outputType=amp

Florida

Senate debate over 6-week abortion ban sparks clash between Jews, Christians

‘I feel like my religion is being persecuted right now,’ senator complains

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/03/30/senate-debate-over-6-week-abortion-ban-sparks-clash-between-jews-christians/

Jewish chair of Florida’s Democratic Party arrested at abortion rights protest

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/04/politics/jewish-chair-of-floridas-democratic-party-arrested-at-abortion-rights-protest

Commentary: Religious rights under threat by Florida abortion proposals

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/04/02/florida-abortion-restrictions-would-violate-religious-rights-of-jews/70064842007/

Rabbi Dan Levin

https://tbeboca.org/our-team/rabbi-dan-levin/

Kate Anderson, a religious reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation, requested an interview. We had a terrific conversation and made a new friend in the media.

Florida Abortion Ban Provokes Conflict Between Jewish Leaders Over Religious Rights

“In Judaism, abortion is absolutely prohibited, we have a strong biblical tradition from Genesis nine which actually has a verse that says ‘he who spills the blood of man within me shall have his blood spilled’ and our sages interpret that as the unborn child of the mother,” Cecily Routman, president of the Jewish Pro-Life Foundation, told the DCNF.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/07/florida-abortion-ban-provokes-conflict-between-jewish-leaders-over-religious-rights/

Texas

Jewish organizational streams weigh in on Texas abortion law

https://www.jns.org/jewish-organizational-streams-weigh-in-on-texas-abortion-law/

Federal Judge Blocks Dangerous Abortion Pill Nationwide, Saving Babies From Abortion

https://www.lifenews.com/2023/04/08/federal-judge-blocks-dangerous-abortion-pill-nationwide-saving-babies-from-abortion/

National Council of Jewish Women Outraged Over Judge Kacsmaryk’s National Medication Abortion Ruling

https://www.ncjw.org/news/national-council-of-jewish-women-outraged-over-national-medication-abortion-ban

Beatification date announced for married couple with seven children martyred by Nazis

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/253649/beatification-date-announced-for-married-couple-with-seven-children-martyred-by-nazis

THE PRO-LIFE REPLY TO: THE VIOLINIST ARGUMENT

https://www.liveaction.org/the-pro-life-reply-to-the-violinist-argument/

Worship Corner

Rabbi Menashe Bovit is the rabbi at Bellerose Jewish Center in Queens NY, an online/brick and mortar synagogue composed of spiritual seekers who worship in an Ashkenazi 'Conservadox' style. Rabbi Bovit teaches with humor combined with love of Chassidism and Torah. He conducts online Shabbat services and Torah classes.

You can view his Shabbat sermons at https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all

Contact Rabbi Bovit at [email protected].

Rabbi Shlomo Nachman is the rabbi of Beit Emunah, a Sephardic online community of spiritual seeking Jews and Noahides. He offers a wide range of Shabbat and holiday services, and Torah studies. Rabbi Nachman is known for his patience, sensitivity, scholarship, and dedication to traditional Jewish teachings. Rabbi Nachman is available to speak at your event!

You can access Rabbi Nachman's online services and classes at https://mewe.com/i/shlomonachman

Contact Rabbi Nachman at [email protected]

Our SPEAKERS LIST is your go to source for booking a Jewish pro-life speaker/educator for your synagogue, legislative working group, or adult/teen learning program.

https://jewishprolifefoundation.org/book-a-speaker