12/30/2011
On Monday, November 21, JSPAN honored the firm of Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C. with the 2011 Social Justice Award, in recognition of their extraordinary contribution to law in...
12/30/2011
On Monday, November 21, JSPAN honored the firm of Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C. with the 2011 Social Justice Award, in recognition of their contribution to law in the public...
11/29/2011
CLE at 5:30 pm (supper provided) with Law Prof. Andrew Strauss   Public Program at 7:00 pm with Sandra Schulberg, Restoration Producer  War crime...
11/17/2011 | Rhoda Indictor | Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
October 31, 2011 New York, NY  Wall to wall people, tents, signs... The day was a beautiful sunny one with just enough breezes to make it comfortable.   A friend...
11/4/2011
JSPAN Board Member Nathan Kleinman has participated in Occupy Philadelphia, the experiment in pure democracy happening on Dilworth Square alongside the Philadelphia City Hall,...
9/12/2011
Adam Bonin, member of the JSPAN Board, joined by JSPAN Vice President Ken Myers, testified on September 6 at a hearing on redistricting before five members of the Philadelphia...
9/6/2011
JSPAN will be sponsoring a program on state-sponsored Education Vouchers on Thursday, September 8 at noon. The event will feature a debate between State Senator Anthony Williams,...
7/13/2011 | By Judith Bernstein-Baker, Esq
 “As Jews, how can we stand idly by with a broken system that hurts those most vulnerable?  More and more we are being asked to break the foundational law of Judaism...
7/3/2011
On Thursday, June 16 the Jewish Social Policy Action Network (JSPAN) held its Annual Meeting in the Justice Roberts Room at the law firm of Montgomery McCracken, in the Wells...
6/3/2011 | ADAM LIPTAK | New York Times
WASHINGTON - Conditions in California's overcrowded prisons are so bad that they violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court ruled on...