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my involvement in the human rights movement broadened

most of my focus was on domestic civil rights. I marched

my class made several visits to the U.N.

209 expressed opposition to world calendar reform on religious grounds. These were the result of a postcard campaign instituted by the Inter-Yeshiva HS Council.

sit-ins or lawsuits. But it succeeded. The UN dropped the proposal and our small group got credit in the media. Here is how the New York Post—my community’s “newspaper of record” in those days—reported our success beneath the headline

I wish to express my opposition to the World Calendar Reform proposal soon to come before the United Nations. This proposal

I reached out to Seventh-Day Adventists (who joined our efforts)

because it would change the natural order of when the Jewish Sabbath fell. Under the conventional calendar

which earned me both the respect and the concern of my frightened parents

why not? It had been founded in the wake of the allied victory over Nazism by nations—mostly democracies—that had been on the right side of the war against Germany

Rene Casin and Albert Schweitzer. Our great hope was the United Nations with its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our mantra was FDR’s “Four Freedoms:” freedom of speech and expression; freedom of worship; freedom from want; freedom f...

but the vast majority of the world’s population has no such legal protection. Human rights are not limited by geographic or political borders. They apply

and act as if your belief were the least popular.

focus on the political ones during the campaign.

some great moral sinners also acted in the name of religion.

recalling that many Americans came to these shores to escape the tyranny of enforced religious uniformity and

there are other issues that also divide the country along religious lines. Some involve religion directly

by giving him a “free” issue. It was free because he – and other “pro-life” Republicans – could strongly oppose all abortion without alienating moderate Republican women and men who favored a woman’s right to choose but felt secure in the k...

dedicating themselves to reversing Roe. In 1974

the pro-choice movement devoted much of its resources to the litigation option