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By Rabbi Neal Gold I didn’t get the opportunity to watch President Obama’s important speech in real-time yesterday, but read the full text of it later in the afternoon.  I hope you get the chance to read it as well. A few observations: First, this speech should lay to rest any question of whether this [...]

By Resa and Stanley Davids According to Wikipedia, Nate Silver is a statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist and writer.  Two words in the previous sentence were rejected by our Google spell-check; truth be told, we needed to track the meaning of those same two words in an online dictionary.  Silver became famous in the United States in [...]

Today is Election Day in Israel, and members of the Kibbutz Lotan community are taking part in the process. While adults vote in the national elections, the kids are learning how the system works by running mock elections in their groups. Community members are also voting for new leadership of the kibbutz. It’s a very [...]

By Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie This article was originally published on Haaretz.com. “In your post-election Knesset speech, address directly the Reform and Conservative majority of American Jews – the heart of our Jewish family and the core of Jewish support for Israel – and who are finished being understanding and patient while Israel’s official representatives [...]

By Rabbi Jack Alan Luxemburg Adonai spoke to Moses, saying:  “Go and tell Pharaoh, King of Egypt, to let the Israelites depart from his land.” But Moses appealed to Adonai, saying: “The Israelites would not listen to me; how then should Pharaoh heed me, a man of impeded speech!” (Exodus 6:10-12) Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (1824-1898) [...]

The World Zionist Organization (WZO) has developed an exciting new interactive game that puts a fun spin on Israeli politics. ARZA will be officially launching the game at a cocktail reception next month in New York City. Our staff has previewed the game and we’re very excited to introduce it to the greater Jewish community.

Numerous news articles have come out in the Forward, New York Times, Jewish Week and Haaretz covering the vote in the UN on upgrading the status of Palestine in the world community. Statements have also been released by URJ and CCAR, with the support of ARZA and ARZA Canada, as well as controversies arising from [...]

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 [...]