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By Galit Roichman On Thursdays between 2:00-5:00 PM I can be found in world repair. It’s less strange than it sounds. Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), in addition to being a key idea in Jewish discourse, is the name of a service-learning program that offers Jewish young adults from around the world an in-depth experience [...]

By Rabbi Stacey Blank If you happened to read my last post reflecting on the rocket attack on Israel, I ended with a question: What can I do? I was happy to receive a call from the Israeli Reform Movement who wanted to organize a group to go down to Ashkelon, which is located 10 [...]

On his recent trip to Israel as part of the Conference of Presidents solidarity mission, URJ President Rabbi Rick Jacobs visited a number of our Reform communities. One of the places he spent time was K’far Aza, where he talked to Chen Abrahams, Director of Development and Overseas Relations at the IMPJ.  In the video [...]

Just one hour after they were sent to the bomb shelter as rockets targeted the Jerusalem area (the missiles struck an area near an Arab village in Gush Etzion with no casualties), Reform Jews at Tzur Hadassa celebrated Shabbat with one another, as well as with Reform Jews throughout Israel and the world, by streaming [...]

It warms our hearts to know that Jews around the world care about us, and that the ARZA agenda is, as always, supportive and empathic. Our Kehillah in Gedera is on the edge of the attacked area.  We are around 35 km (21.75 miles) from the Gaza Strip.  In comparison with other areas in the [...]

Shabbat Shalom to all, This evening the bombing found me in Tel Aviv in Beit Daniel. As I was carrying on with my work and talking to people in the office, we heard a siren. You could see on everyone’s faces that no one knew if to take is seriously or not. After a few [...]

There is an old Chinese saying: women hold up half the sky. It would seem that, in this world view, women and their contributions to life are of equal importance to those of men. This does not really speak to the nature of those contributions, if they are the same or different efforts, but that [...]

This letter was written by an ARZA member in response to the arrest of Anat Hoffman on Tuesday. It was sent to a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Amid all of the wonderful things for which we celebrate Israel, the appalling, and disgraceful treatment of Jewish women in Jerusalem and elsewhere is a [...]

Shalom! My name is Gabriel Pablo Sasson. I am 45 years old, married and have two sons. My family and I made aliyah (immigrated) to Israel from Buenos Aires, Argentina in February 2003. At that time, my sons were eight and three years old; today they are two teenagers, 17 and 13. We are a [...]

Long before Israel gained independence, the city of Jaffa was a bustling port. Today, it swarms with multi-national populations, whose tenuous coexistence is constantly on the brink of conflict. The ones who suffer most from this situation are the weaker populations – the children, the youth and the elderly. The participants in the IMPJ pre-army [...]