Resolutions

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For the past several decades, when  the members of Women’s League gathered for its international convention, delegates debated and adopted resolutions on a wide variety of issues that impact the world we live in as Jews and as women. The process of resolution adoption is being expanded at this time.

These resolutions direct the actions of Women’s League and its affiliated sisterhoods and regions.

Click on the links below to view the resolutions by topic:

A

• Affirmative Action (1976)
• Affordable Housing (2004)
• Amnesty (Vietnam) (1974)
• Apartheid (1986)
• Arab Discrimination Against American Citizens (1962)
• Arms Control (1978)
• Autism (2008)
• Equal Rights - Anti-Semitism (2002)
• Health - Abortion (1976)
• Health - Abortion (1982)
• Health - AIDS (1988)
• Israel - Arab Boycott (1976)
• Israel - Arab Boycott Against Israel (1958)
• Israel - Arab Propaganda in the United States (1956)

B

• Battered Women (1984)
• Bicentennial (1974)
• Bill of Rights (1988)
• Bombings of Houses of Worship (1958)
• Business Ethics (2002)
• Environment - Biodiversity – Social Action (1996)
• Equal Rights - Black/Hispanic Relations (1980)

C

• Capital Punishment (1978)
• Censorship (1988)
• Child Abuse (1984)
• Child Care (1988)
• Child Labor (1992)
• Children in Poverty (2002)
• China (1972)
• Civility in the Public Arena (1996)
• Cloture (1952)
• Concentration Camps (1996)
• Consumer Protection (1976)
• Crime and the Deterrence of Crime (1978)
• Criminal Justice Reform (2024)
• Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1975 (1975)
• Elder Care - Caregivers (1986)
• Equal Rights - Civil Rights (1974)
• Israel - Pro-Israel Activism on Campus (2002)

D

• Disarmament (1960)
• Domestic Violence (1996)
• Drugs (1984)
• Drunk Driving (1984)
• Equal Rights - Inclusion and Disabilities (2014)
• Equal Rights - People with Disabilities (1990)
• General Disarmament and Nuclear Test Ban (1964)

E

• Education - Federal Aid to Education (2006)
• Education - Literacy: America Reads Challenge (1998)
• Education - Quality Public Education (1990)
• Education - Religion in Public Schools (1958)
• Elder Care - Aid to the Aging (1960)
• Elder Care - Caregivers (1986)
• Elder Care - Elderly (1978)
• Elder Care - Medical Care for the Aging (1964)
• Elder Care - Nursing Homes (1976)
• Elder Care - Visitation Rights of Grandparents (1984)
• Elections - Voter Apathy (1988)
• Elections - Voting Rights in the United States (2014)
• Elections - Zionist Elections (2014)
• Employment (1978)
• Environment - Biodiversity – Social Action (1996)
• Environment - Energy (2008)
• Environment (1992)
• Equal Rights - Anti-Semitism (2002)
• Equal Rights - Black/Hispanic Relations (1980)
• Equal Rights - Civil Rights (1974)
• Equal Rights - Gay & Lesbian Jews (1992)
• Equal Rights - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Jews (2012)
• Equal Rights - Inclusion and Disabilities (2014)
• Equal Rights - Integration (1962)
• Equal Rights - People with Disabilities (1990)
• Equal Rights - Racial Issues and Racial Profiling (2021)
• Equal Rights - Women's Conferences (1994)
• Equality (1982)
• Ethics in Government (1980)

F

• Education - Federal Aid to Education (2006)
• Foreign Aid (1990)
• Free Trade Area (1984)
• Freedom of Assembly (1960)

G

• Equal Rights - Gay & Lesbian Jews (1992)
• Equal Rights - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Jews (2012)
• General Disarmament and Nuclear Test Ban (1964)
• Genocide (1976)
• Global Warming (2006)
• Government Procedures (1960)
• Gun Violence (2000)
• Gun Violence (2014)
• Human Trafficking - Global Trafficking in Women (2000)

H

• Health - Abortion (1976)
• Health - Abortion (1982)
• Health - AIDS (1988)
• Health - Birth Control (1976)
• Health - Insurance Inequities (2000)
• Health - National Health Plan (1978)
• Health - Organ & Tissue Donation (1996)
• Health - Prescriptions for the Elderly and the Underinsured (2000)
• Health - Purity and Safety of Food (2002)
• Health - Reproductive Rights (2012)
• Health - Reproductive Rights (2014)
• Health - Reproductive Rights 2020
• Health - Tay-Sachs Disease (1978)
• Health - Universal Healthcare (1976)
• Health - Women's Health (2022)
• Home Rule for the District of Columbia (1960)
• Homeland Security (2002)
• Human Environment (1978)
• Human Trafficking (2018)
• Hungary (1956)
• Hunger - Feeding the Hungry (1986)
• Hunger (2012)
• The Homeless (1984)

I

• Immigration (2017)
• Indigenous Canadian Women and Poverty (2008)
• Israel - 1980 Olympics (1978)
• Israel - Aid and Assistance (1952)
• Israel - Arab Boycott (1976)
• Israel - Arab Boycott Against Israel (1958)
• Israel - Arab Propaganda (1974)
• Israel - Arab Propaganda in the United States (1956)
• Israel - Camp David Process (1982)
• Israel - Constitution for Israel (2006)
• Israel - Education in Israel (2006)
• Israel - Equality of Treatment in Israeli Hotels (2012)
• Israel - Funding for TALI Schools (2008)
• Israel - Gender Equality in Public Secular Spaces (2012)
• Israel - Israel Affairs (1998)
• Israel - Israel at 60 (2008)
• Israel - Israeli Soldiers in Captivity (2008)
• Israel - Jerusalem (1992)
• Israel - Jewish and Arab/Muslim Relations (1994)
• Israel - Magen David Adom (2002)
• Israel - Masorti Judaism (1994)
• Israel - Mercaz (1984)
• Israel - Palestinian State (2004)
• Israel - Pro-Israel Activism on Campus (2002)
• Israel - Religious Pluralism at the Western Wall (2016)
• Israel - Special Relationship Between United States and Israel (1984)
• Israel - Territorial Issues (1976)
• Israel - Tourism (1986)
• Israel - Water (2000)
• Israel - Women’s Prayer Groups at the Wall (1990)
• Israel (2012)

J

• Criminal Justice Reform (2024)
• Jewish Demographic Crisis (1992)
• Jewish Victims of Violence (1968)
• Judaism - Agunah/Pre-Nuptial Agreement (2008)
• Judaism - Centennial of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1986)
• Judaism - Heksher Tzedek (2008)
• Judaism - Humane Slaughtering (1962)
• Judaism - Jewish Child Day Care Centers (1982)
• Judaism - National Community Relations Advisory Council (1956)
• Judaism - Non-Jewish Spouses in Mixed Marriages (1986)
• Judaism - Separation of Church and State (2012)
• Judaism - Special Needs in Jewish Education (2000)
• Judaism - Sunday Laws (1962)
• Judaism - The Jewish Educator (1980)
• Judaism - The Jewish Family (1986)

L

• LGBTQ+ (2020)

M

• Israel - Masorti Judaism (1994)
• Israel - Mercaz (1984)
• Media - Deregulation (1984)
• Minimum Wage (2014)
• Missionary Activity and Religious Cults (1978)
• The Media (1992)

N

• NATO Action in Kosovo (1999)
• Negative Stereotyping of Jewish Women (1988)
• Non-Profit Tax Exempt Status (2006)
• Nuclear Arms Control (1982)

O

• Operation Recognition (1978)
• Overseas Discrimination (1960)

P

• Israel - Palestinian State (2004)
• Poverty (2006)
• Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (1980)
• Protection of Intellectual Property (1998)

R

• Equal Rights - Racial Issues and Racial Profiling (2021)
• Refugee Policies (1988)
• Regional Balance of Power (1992)
• Religious Liberty (1962)
• Religious Pluralism (1998)
• Right to Choose (2020)
• Right Wing Groups (1962)
• The Religious Right (1980)

S

• Negative Stereotyping of Jewish Women (1988)
• Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Centennial (1984)
• Subversive Control Act (1950)
• Supreme Court (1962)

T

• Technology - Cybertechnology and Free Speech (2002)
• Technology - Genetic Testing and Discrimination (1998)
• Technology - Hydrofracking (2012)
• Technology - Space Technology (1962)
• Technology - Technical Assistance (1966)
• Technology - Therapeutic Cloning Research (1982)
• Terrorism - Global Terrorism (2004)
• Terrorism (1998)
• Torture (2006)

U

• United Nations - Calendar Reform (1954)
• United Nations - Children's Rights (1990)
• United Nations - Franco Spain (1950)
• United Nations - Human Rights (1978)
• United Nations - International Courts (1998)
• United Nations - International Decade Events (2006)
• United Nations - International Year Events (2010)
• United Nations - United Nations (2008)
• United States Constitution (1984)

V

• Voluntarism (1980)

W

• Equal Rights - Women's Conferences (1994)
• Health - Women's Health (2022)
• Israel - Women’s Prayer Groups at the Wall (1990)
• Workplace Crime (1978)
• World Judaism - Emerging Democracies (1990)
• World Judaism - Ethiopian Jewry in Israel (2000)
• World Judaism - Germany (1952)
• World Judaism - Soviet Jewry (1990)
• World Judaism - Syrian Jewry (1978)