Religious Action Center
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The Religious Action Center (RAC) is the political and legislative outreach arm of Reform Judaism in the United States. The RAC is operated under the auspices of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, a joint instrumentality of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Judaism.
Consistent with the political and social concerns of Reform Judaism, the RAC played a key role in important political events of the 1960s civil rights movement. It hosted several meetings at which the groundwork for the various Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Acts was laid. It also shielded civil rights marchers who were attacked by District of Columbia police officers. The RAC also hosted a Passover seder for the Dalai Lama in the mid-1980s.
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