Entries tagged with 'Guest Blog'
The Power of One - Ellie vs. The Asian Carp
Ellie Moskowitz is a 5th grade student at the Roeper School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This entry was co-written with her father, Rabbi Michael Moskowitz. Learn more about her project here.It all began with a 5th grade class project. In...
Gulf Update: Rabbi Saperstein Meets with Mitzvah Corps
This entry was written by Savannah Horton and Danielle Freedman, participants in the NFTY Mitzvah Corps of the South program, following their meeting with Rabbi Saperstein in New Orleans last week. This post was edited by Dean Carson and Daniel...
NFTY President Reflects on White House Visit
Aliza Slavin Gazek is the 2009-2010 President of the North American
Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY).
As you know, this year I've served as President of NFTY, the North American Federation of Temple Youth. NFTY encompasses 10,000 Reform Jewish teens from all across the US and Canada, serving as the youth movement for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ). So many moments from my Presidency have made me smile since I was handed the gavel last June. Now, as I reach the end of my term, I'm overjoyed to have attended the President's reception at the White House honoring Jewish American Heritage Month. The event was thrilling, and I'm excited to share everything. Here's my story.
Turn Your Outrage Over BP's Oil Leak Into Action
Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith is a sustainability consultant, a long-time Jewish environmental activist, and a board member for Hazon and the American Friends of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership. This entry originally appeared on the Green Strides...
African Refugees Struggle in Israel
Shaina Ward is a volunteer for the African Refugee Development Center. Israel is a crossroads for many people, both geographically and spiritually. As the center of Jewish tradition for millennia, Israel and Jews around the world have been inextricably linked....
A Hero's Story in Israel
Yoav Schaefer is an alumnae of NFTY SoCal and NFTY-EIE. This post first appeared in NFTY's "It's an Israel Thing." "Everybody dies, but not everyone truly lives:" My brother Avi truly lived. Avi and I were born on June 11,...
"Woman, abomination, desecration"
Noa Raz is a member of Israel's Masorti (Conservative) Movement who was recently assaulted in Beersheva. This piece is courtesy of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel. Every morning I get up and pray shacharit, with a tallit...
Honoring the Memory of Rabbi Michael Signer
Rabbi Eric J. Siroka is a Brickner Fellow. He serves Temple Beth-El in South Bend, Ind. I had the wonderful opportunity this Monday to attend a symposium at the University of Notre Dame marking the publication of a festschrift in...
faithjam: A Celebration of Diversity
Rosalie Boxt currently serves as Cantor of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland, a 500 family congregation just north of Washington DC.More than a year ago, I invited Jewish musician Craig Taubman and his band to spend the weekend at Temple...
Hope for Darfur, Justice in Sudan
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One Percent: Creating a Culture of Generosity
Daniel Kaufman, a former RAC Legislative Assistant, is the Founder of the One Percent Foundation and lives in Sacramento, CA with his wife and daughter. Daniel also runs a philanthropy advising service and is available to speak about effective philanthropy....
Arizona's Immigration Law: "An Affront to [Our] Ideals"
Rabbi Thomas A. Louchheim serves Congregation Or Chadash in Tucson, Ariz. When I returned home yesterday afternoon, I spoke to my wife and a friend who told me of their conversations with Hispanic friends and co-workers about the Safe Neighborhoods...
Sex Ed Training Pays Off!
Rob Keithan is the Director of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations' Washington Office for Advocacy. This post first appeared at Inspired Faith, Effective Action and is republished with permission. As far as we know, the Sexuality Education Advocacy Training...
Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat
This piece first appeared in the Jewish Council for Public Affairs' Confronting Poverty e-newsletter and is republished with permission. As the deadline approaches for Congress to reauthorize billions of dollars to support vital child nutrition programs, the local Jewish community,...
What's Food Got To Do With It?
Jordan Namerow is the Senior Communications Associate of American Jewish World Service. Why does a typical family in the developing world spend 80 percent of its income on food? Why are more than a billion people chronically hungry when our...
Jews Responding to the Earthquake in Haiti
Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Virginia is looking beyond the headlines in thinking about how best to form their communal response to the recent earthquake in Haiti. This week, TRS's senior rabbi, Amy Schwartzman, shares a guest post about...
A Personal Pursuit of Justice
Elliot Kort is a senior at the University of Kansas and an alumnus of the Religious Action Center's Machon Kaplan program.My liberal Jewish guilt was really starting to bug me. In the wake of the 2008 presidential election, I reflected...
"We sentence innocent people to their deaths."
Andrea Woods is a Program Assistant for Witness to Innocence. It is Death Penalty Awareness Week, and supporters of human rights across the country have turned their attention to a uniquely complicated injustice - the implementation of capital punishment in...
Preserve God's Creation... by Passing Climate Legislation
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented on Monday to the office of Congressman David Dreier (R-CA) by Andrew Borer and Mark Gilbert. Both are members of Temple Beth Israel in Pomona, Calif., who attended...
A Brief Reminder of the Urgency of Health Care Reform
Beth Dahlman is the Online Organizer at Faith in Public Life. This post originally appeared on Bold Faith Type and is republished with permission.The February 25 bipartisan health care summit with President Obama and Members of Congress will put reform...
Frozen Reform
Robert D. Francis is the director for domestic policy for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This post originally appeared last week on Theolog and is republished with permission. The federal government finally reopened today after four days closed due...
NY's Chief Judge Visits Central Synagogue
Ron Tabak, a lawyer, is chair of the Jethro Committee to Honor the Legal Profession at Central Synagogue in New York City. The Torah portion Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) is named for Moses' father-in-law Jethro (Yitro). After observing Moses, the leader...
Movements Collaborate to Raise Disability Awareness
Shelly Christensen is the Chair of the Disability Task Force and Program Manager of the Jewish Community Inclusion Program for People with Disabilities, a program of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis. February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month, and...
Tu Bishevat. Doing Something About It.
Rabbi Micah Streiffer is the Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth El in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and 3 sons. He was ordained at the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in...
The Women of the Wall's Struggle for Religious Liberty in Israel
Rabbi Jill Maderer serves at Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, Penn. This post originally appeared at BlogRS and is reposted with permission.When I prayed with Women of the Wall (WoW) in 1996, I never imagined that in 2010, women...
For Haiti: NFTY-MV's Campaign on the Plane
Sarah Korn and Ana Dodson of the North American Federation of Temple Youth's Missouri Valley Region (NFTY-MV) tell their story of raising more than $300 on a plane on the way to a NFTY event. This post originally appeared on...
"Too Often We Forget About Each Other"
When I was on the Jerusalem city council, I gave a lot of thought to earthquakes. The seismologists had figured out that every eighty years an earthquake strikes Israel, and since the last major earthquake occurred in 1927, we are...
Israel's Movement for Progressive Judaism
Rabbi Denise L. Eger is the founding Rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami, West Hollywood's Reform Synagogue. She is the first female president of the Southern California Board of Rabbis and is also president of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis....
Muslims Fighting Terror
Hesham A. Hassaballa is a Chicago doctor and writer who maintains the blog God, Faith and a Pen. He is a Beliefnet columnist and a guest blogger for The Chicago Tribune who co-authored of The Beliefnet Guide to Islam (Doubleday). This...
A Perilous "Fragile Calm" in Darfur
Sean Brooks is the International Advocacy and Outreach Manager at the Save Darfur Coalition. This post originally appeared on the Save Darfur Weblog and is republished with permission. The New York Times on Saturday ran "Fragile Calm Holds in Darfur...
President Shimon Peres Visits Kibbutz Lotan
Alex Cicelsky is a founder of Kibbutz Lotan in Israel. Learn more at KibbutzLotan.com. The recent President's Conference in Jerusalem opened with a video that showcased innovative research and development in the Negev and highlighted Reform Kibbutz Lotan's ecology center....
And Who Said I Could Not Change the World?
Danielle B. Flaum is a junior at Millburn High School, NJ. She is a L'Taken Seminar graduate and an Eisner Camp alumna who loves studying Government and History."What you're doing is a mitzvah." Ambassador Michael Oren's words echoed in my head...
Food Trends vs. Food Culture
Donald Cohen-Cutler is a former Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center and former Communications Manager of the Union for Reform Judaism. He currently lives in New York City and is an analyst for Kekst and Company. This post...
Abolishing the Death Penalty
This post, co-authored by Rabbi David Saperstein, Rev. Geoffrey Black and Rev. Linda Jaramillo, was originally published by On Faith at washingtonpost.com. Rev. Geoffrey Black is the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, a participant in the...
Hannukah lights in Copenhagen
Sybil Sanchez is the director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), one of the leading Jewish environmental organizations in the United States. This piece originally appeared in the Washington Post "On Faith" series. Read more of...
From Jerusalem, Reasons to Keep Hoping
Anat Hoffman is the Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center in Jerusalem. This post originally appeared as a message in IRAC's December 14, 2009 newsletter, The Pluralist. To sign up for updates from IRAC, visit www.irac.org.I know...
Update: Live from Copenhagen!
The Copenhagen talks are well underway, and we are excited to bring you a live update from the conference next Tuesday, December 15, at 3:30 p.m. EST. We hope you will join us to hear from David Waskow, Climate Change...
Copenhagen 1943 and Copenhagen UN 2009
Rabbi Warren Stone is co-chair of the National Religious Coalition on Creation Care and founding chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis' Committee on the Environment. Rabbi Warren Stone serves as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland. He...
The Equation for a Healthier Planet
Megan Elsayed is the Social Action Vice President of the NFTY Northwest Region. Learn more about NFTY's activities, and read more of our blog posts from and about COP 15 here.What a fantastic first step! By involving youth, crossing generational...
Chanukah and Our Obligation to Human Rights
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster is the Director of Education and Outreach, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. This psot first appeared as a Ten Minutes of Torah on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009."Ness gadol hayah sham." "A great miracle happened there." This phrase,...
"Choose Life, If You and Your Offspring Would Live"
Owen Gottlieb is a fifth year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR.Deuteronomy 30:19: "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life -- if you and your...
Building on the Environmental Momentum Following COP15
Rabbi Warren Stone serves as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland. He is representing the Reform Jewish Movement at the Copenhagen Climate Talks. This post originally appeared on the Earth Day Network Blog and is reprinted with permission....
World AIDS Day 2009
Orelia Busch is a Legislative Assistant for Women's Issues UUWF Clara Barton Internship Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This post originally appeared at Inspired Faith, Effective Action, a blog run by the Advocacy & Witness staff group of the Unitarian...
Tales of a Former RAC LA: "Better Off for Having Been One"
Ben Weyl was an Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center in 2007-2008. Applications for the 2010-2011 LA program are now available online; interested applicants should contact RAC Legislative Assistant Director Barbara Weinstein with questions.Hearing that the RAC...
Jerusalem Residents Reach the Tipping Point
Anat Hoffman is the Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center in Jerusalem. This post originally appeared as a message in IRAC's November 30, 2009 newsletter, The Pluralist. To sign up for updates from IRAC, visit www.irac.org. Nofrat Frenkel's...
Reform Representation at Copenhagen UN's COP 15
Rabbi Warren Stone serves as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland. Nationally known for his leadership on religion and the environment, Rabbi Stone is co-chair of the National Religious Coalition on Creation Care and founding chair of the Central...
Beyond Pita & Falafel: Sustainable Eating in Israel
Miriam Farber is currently living in Jerusalem and studying in the Year Program at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies. She is an alumna of Eisner Camp and NFTY. To read more about Miriam's time in Israel, visit her...
The City that Health Care Forgot
Jill Zimmerman is a former Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center currently working on education policy in New Orleans. When I moved to New Orleans after completing a year as a RAC Legislative Assistant, I did so not just...
Is Shabbat Worth a Riot?
The weekend is the great Jewish invention. Forgive me for sounding crude, for describing the day of rest as if it were the outcome of a scientist's tinkering - I believe in keeping Shabbat. It is time sanctified, time...
Remembering Native Americans - Beyond November
Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is a Keetoowah Cherokee Indian descendant and the author of Living in Color: Embracing God's Passion for Ethnic Diversity. He teaches history, theology, and culture at George Fox Evangelical Seminary in Portland, Oregon. This post first...
Klal Yisrael - One Jewish People
Rabbi Denise L. Eger is the founding Rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami, West Hollywood's Reform Synagogue. She is the first female president of the Southern California Board of Rabbis and is also president of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis....
Momentum Builds for Climate Action
Last weekend, tens of thousands of people in 181 countries came together for the "350.org International Day of Climate Action," a global wake-up call on climate change. In over 5,000 events worldwide, people of all ages joined the movement to...
How Jews, Christians and Muslims Can Work Together For Peace
Rachel Barenblat, an ALEPH rabbinic student who blogs as the Velveteen Rabbi, is an active member of Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform congregation in western Massachusetts. This post originally appeared at Velveteen Rabbi and is cross-posted with permission.I'm blogging this...
Interfaith Group of Clergy Calls for Civility in National Dialogue
Arielle Gingold is the Public Policy Manager at the Interfaith Alliance. She is a former Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center. This post originally appeared at State of Belief.If Mel Brooks were to rewrite the satirical song "Spring Time for...
Why Does IRAC Oppose Israeli Civil Union Bill?
Anat Hoffman is the Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center in Jerusalem. This post originally appeared as a message in IRAC's October 19, 2009 newsletter, The Pluralist. To sign up for updates from IRAC, visit www.irac.org. A...
SoCAL Teens Learn to Lead through Social Action
Aaron Steinfeld is the Social Action Vice President of NFTY SoCAL, the North American Federation of Temple Youth's Southern California region.In early October, the teenagers of NFTY SoCAL walked into a dark room to begin the Leadership Training Institute,...
Fighting Poverty with Faith: Good Jobs, Green Jobs Launch
The following is excerpted from an email update from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs announcing the launch of Fighting Poverty With Faith: Good Jobs, Green Jobs, a week of mobilization supported by the Religious Action Center and other faith...
Sukkot Lessons on Justice, Equality, & Pluralism
Sophie Vener is the 2009-2010 Social Action Vice President of the National Federation of Temply Youth (NFTY). She is participating in Shnat Netzer, the World Union for Progressive Judaism's gap year program in Israel. My Sukkot experience began the...
Remembering Capt. Benjamin Sklaver
Rabbi Harold L. Robinson, Rear Admiral CHC USN Ret, is the Director of JWB Jewish Chaplains Council. The world, and specifically the community of Reform Judaism, lost a very special neshama with the death by enemy action in Afghanistan of...
Welcome to Israel: Take a (New) Number
Rachel Present grew up in the Reform Movement. She is an alumna of NFTY and a former employee of United Jewish Communities. This month, she made aliyah to Israel; the following is excerpted with permission from an email update...
Health Care: Human Right, Civil Right, Privilege, or Market Commodity?
Dr. Valerie Elverton Dixon is an independent scholar who publishes lectures and essays at JustPeaceTheory.com. She received her Ph.D. in religion and society from Temple University and taught Christian ethics at United Theological Seminary and Andover Newton Theological School....
Abortion Polling: Another Impetus for Common Ground?
Kristin Williams is the Media Relations Associate at Faith in Public Life. This post originally appeared at Faith in Public Life's blog, Bold Faith Type.Back in May, Gallup found that more Americans identified as "pro-life" than "pro-choice" for the first...
Embracing the Spirit of Sukkot for Atlanta
Ethan Guthman is the Social Action Vice President of the North American Federation of Temple Youth's Southern Area Region (NFTY-SAR).The smell of fruit glides through the air; the shaking of the lulav and etrog can be heard. It's that...
Faith Leaders Deliver Message to White House
Natasha Ghent-Rodriguez is the Mid-Atlantic Region Coordinator for the Save Darfur Coalition. This post originally appeared on Save Darfur's blog. [Last Friday], representatives from faith communities nationwide met with Reverend Joshua DuBois, Director of the White House Office of Faith...
Human Trafficking: Giving Our Voices to the Silent
Nathan Markiewitz is the Social Action Vice President of (e)YGOW, the youth group of Wise Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio. To subscribe to Wise Temple's social action-themed Global Updates, email nmarkiewitz@gmail.com. As my temple youth group's new Social Action Vice President,...
Vital Partnership: Youth Participation & Adult Support
Megan Elsayed is the Social Action Vice President of the North American Federation of Temple Youth's Northwest (NFTY-NW) region.Its 9:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning: Do you know where your teens are? They could be sleeping, doing schoolwork, or even...
JanetheWriter Goes to Washington: A One-Day Sabbatical Adventure
Jane Herman is a Writer and Assistant to Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism. This post originally appeared at RJ.org, where she regularly contributes under the pseudonym JanetheWriter. Earlier this month, I marked the completion...
Disability Leaders Meet with Attorney General
Andrew Imparato is the President and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities. This post originally appeared at AAPD's blog, Justice for All. Last week, nine representatives from the disability community met with Attorney General Eric Holder...
The Case That Should End Capital Punishment
Jonah Perlin is a former RAC Eisendrath Legislative Assistant. He has a Masters degree in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago and is currently a first-year law student at Georgetown University. All views expressed are his own. There are many...
Intermarried Jews Are Not Victims of Kidnappers
Robin Margolis is the Coordinator of the Half-Jewish Network, a rabbinical student at the Rabbinical Seminary International, and currently lives "between" Washington, DC and New York City. This post originally appeared on Sept. 10, 2009, on the Israel Religious Action...
Shared Feelings, Common History
Dr. Gordon Bronitsky is the President and Founder of Bronitsky and Associates in Albuquerque, N.M. He is currently organizing a Native American mission to Israel from the United States.I'm organizing an American Indian mission to Israel for June 2010....
Easing Anxieties in the Health Care Debate
David Goldman is a member of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and a partner at Littler Mendelson. He serves on the Board of Directors of Congregation Emanu-el in San Francisco, where he is also a member and...
Responding to Hunger in Israel
Sophie Vener is the 2009-2010 Social Action Vice President of the National Federation of Temply Youth (NFTY).I arrived in Jerusalem on Monday, August 31st, to begin my year on Shnat Netzer, the World Union for Progressive Judaism's gap year...
Protesting Segregated Buses in Jerusalem
Last Sunday, seven Israel Religious Action Center staff members and I boarded at the front of Bus No. 40, one of Jerusalem's segregated bus lines. After paying the fare, we sat down right behind the bus driver, which prompted...
Al Vorspan: Remembering Sen. Ted Kennedy
Al Vorspan is the Senior Vice-President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism and for 50 years served as the Director of its Commission on Social Action. For more than 60 years, the fate of one political family has...
Looking Out for "the Rest of the Flock"
Molly Goldberg is Social Action Vice President of the Missouri Valley Region of the North American Federation of Temple Youth. This post originally appeared on iTorah.A single pigeon walked across a park path in Washington DC. We sat on a...
Sometimes, It Takes a Village
Judy Hellman is the Associate Director of the Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee in Overland Park, Kansas, serving the state of Kansas and western Missouri. All views expressed are her own.If you give people the information and the...
"May That Bullet Destroy Every Closet Door"
Joanna Blotner is the Religion & Faith Program Coordinator at the Human Rights Campaign and a former Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the RAC. All views expressed are her own. Two weekends ago, a gunman attacked the Agudah LGBT community center in Tel Aviv, murdering two young,...
The White House's Interfaith Intern Event
Sufia Alnoor is an intern at the Islamic Society of North America's Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances and a student at George Mason University. All views expressed are her own. Earlier this summer, I - along with another intern...
Healing the Ritual: Abuse & the Mikva
Daphne Price is the executive assistant to Rabbi David Saperstein at the Religious Action Center.I had a very clumsy week last week, and because of that clumsiness, I found myself covered in marks and bruises. I look like I...
Ethical Investing: Buffet, the Pope and Others Take Action
Floyd Keene is member of the Commission on Social Action. He is Past President of Lakeside Congregation in Highland Park, IL, and is active in various national groups promoting philanthropy and ethical investing. Socially Responsible Investing (also called Ethical...
On the Verge of History: Where's the Passion?
David Goldman is a member of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and a partner at Littler Mendelson. He serves on the Board of Directors of Congregation Emanu-el in San Francisco, where he is also a member...
NFTY's Spreading the Word About Refugees in Need
Kyleigh Banks is President of the North American Federation of Temple Youth's Northwest region, and Daniel Landesberg is President of the North American Federation of Temple Youth's Southern Tropical region. Refugee camps are often overlooked in Jewish youth programming....
The Health Care Debate & the Usage of Nazi Imagery & Propaganda
Rabbi Fred Guttman is a member of the Commission on Social Action and rabbi at Temple Emanuel Greensboro in North Carolina. This post originally appeared at "Reb Fred Says." All views expressed are his own. About 12 days ago, I received...
Truth-Telling and Responsibility in Health Care
Jim Wallis is CEO of Sojourners. This blog post first appeared on God's Politics Blog and is reprinted with permission from Sojourners. I have said that one important moral principle for the health-care debate is truth-telling. For decades, the physical...
Why I Chose to Fast: For Darfur, For Me
Rabbi Marla J. Feldman is the Union for Reform Judaism's Director of Development. She is the former director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and was previously a member of the founding board of the Save...
Youth Are the Future: A NFTY Perspective
Molly Goldberg is the Social Action Vice President of the Missouri Valley Region of the North American Federation of Temple Youth.You're sitting in your temple's social hall contemplating the meaning of the week's Torah portion or synagogue office proof reading the...
POTUS Makes an Ohio Pit Stop
Amy R. Kaplan is the Director of Government Relations for the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and Vice Chair of the Union for Reform Judaism's Board of Trustees. All views expressed are her own.The normally relaxing nature of summer came...
Children of Exile
Jacob Schuman is a Public Policy Fellow at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. He planned and recently implemented a trip to New Orleans for black and Jewish leaders from throughout the country. On our "African-American/Jewish Community Relations Leadership Mission,"...
A National Treasure
Donald Cohen-Cutler is a former Communications Manager at the Union for Reform Judaism. This post originally appeared at RJ.org. All views expressed are his own.In the days after we returned from our honeymoon the questions turned from "how was your...
Which is the Fast...?
Rabbi Mark Hurvitz lives in New York City. This post was first posted at The Jew and the Carrot and and at davka.org. The prophet Isaiah asks (58:6-7): Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the...
Fasting for Darfur
Ruth Messinger is the President of American Jewish World Service. She is participating in a two-day, water-only fast for Darfur, which will tomorrow be taken over by Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center. I am already amazed...
Eulogy for Dr. Tiller
Rabbi David N. Young is the assistant rabbi at Temple Sinai in North Miami Beach, Florida. This post originally appeared on Rabbi Young's Blog on June 5th. The poet Marcia Falk adapted a poem ascribed only to the name Zelda,...
Celebrating Jerusalem: Creating Change for the Better
Lauren Joseph is a Communications Fellow at the Israel Religious Action Center in Jerusalem. This post was originally posted yesterday on the IRAC's blog. Sign up for IRAC email updates here. There will always be a place in my heart...
Making History: Israeli High Court Rules in Favor of Reform Conversions
Today is a very important day for Progressive Judaism and the cause of Jewish pluralism in Israel. IRAC just won a precedent-setting case in the Israeli Supreme Court which says that the State has to provide equal funding for Reform...
Picketing or Picking on the Jews: Nothing New
Sherry Levy-Reiner, Ph.D., is a member of Temple Sinai in Washington, DC, and the former director of development at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. A member of the Editorial Board of Reform Judaism magazine, she lived in Topeka...
Reflections on an Interfaith trip to the Holy Land
This post was originally sent as an email from Rabbi Steve Gutow, Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs from its executive director. It is reprinted here with permission from the JCPA. Dear friends, I have just returned...
Reflections on the AIPAC Conference
Rabbi David Jay Kaufman is the rabbi at Temple B'nai Jeshurun in Des Moines, Iowa. All views expressed are his own. There is a false perception that somehow an organization of the political right. Anti-Israel groups have worked hard to...
Raising Awareness About Gender Integration
Judith Hertz is a member of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism. All views expressed are her own. While in Washington, D.C. for the Consultation on Conscience I took an hour to attend a meeting at USAID on...
Green Clean - Chametz and Environmental Sustainability
Barbara Lerman-Golomb is a member of the Commission on Social Action and the Northeast Camp Commission. She is the Director of Education and Outreach for Hazon and an author, environmental activist and experiential educator. All views expressed are her own....
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