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The Vote is Sacred Tour: Harrisburg, PA
On the eve of Election Day, The Vote is Sacred Tour visited Harrisburg. A camera crew from the local ABC News affiliate was waiting at Beth El Temple for us when the bus arrived. We met up with Rabbi Carl Choper of Interfaith Alliance of Pennsylvania and visited the capitol building and other sites around the city. We finished our visit to Harrisburg with a press conference in partnership with Power to the Hill, which engages voters and promotes active citizenship in the Allison Hill neighborhood. The reporter from the ABC affiliate delivered a live report from the site of the press conference.
You can watch the in-depth report here:
We departed Harrisburg for Philadelphia after the press conference and were able to watch the report on the television on the bus! Here’s a photo of that exciting moment!
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Interfaith Alliance Joins Civil Rights Organizations Opposing DC Policing Takeover
On August 15th, Interfaith Alliance joined 125 other organizations to express concern over President Trump’s decision to assert control over the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and to deploy the National Guard throughout the city. Rather than helping to protect DC communities, this decision represents a terrifying instance of executive overreach to amass political power and to undermine our democracy.
What’s Happening in Texas is a Moral Outrage
In Tom Stoppard’s play Jumpers, he penned the line: “It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.” In our democratic republic, the way in which votes are counted decides who represents us, whose votes matter. President Trump is currently working with allies in state legislatures across the country to change where votes in their states are counted, in an undemocratic attempt to maintain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections by building on years of attacks on decades-old voter protection laws. For decades, elected officials have attempted to gerrymander districts in their respective states in order to maintain their party’s political power, but never has a president publicly strategized on how to use ad-hoc redistricting in order to maintain his political power.
Texas Faith Communities Fight Against Mandated Ten Commandment Displays
Texans of all faiths are uniting in filing a lawsuit against Senate Bill No. 10 (S.B. 10), which requires Texas public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. The bill specifically mandates the display must be at least sixteen by twenty inches, hung in a "conspicuous space,” and follow a specific phrasing most commonly aligned with Protestant beliefs.