Women of Reform Judaism

By: Jessica Kirzane The history of Jewish women in America is important.  It’s not just important in some politically-correct way – I’m not saying we need to be thinking about and teaching about American Jewish women in order to prove that they ‘contributed’ to a male-dominated history, or just to make sure that everyone feels they [...]

By: Linda O. Ferguson Last weekend, July 20 and 21st approximately 30 members from Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) Mid Atlantic and Southeast districts came to Six Points Sports Academy to celebrate Shabbat. What an extraordinary experience for us.  6 Points Sports Academy provides young Jewish athletes with an incredible venue to hone their sport skills at the [...]

By Liz Piper-Goldberg As a student in the Rabbinical Program of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, I am supported by a generous scholarship from the Women of Reform Judaism. I am deeply honored to be the beneficiary of an organization that does such important and significant work for our movement and our congregations. [...]

By Jordán Raber Since it is always difficult to begin a piece of writing, I will resort to a quotation. In “Shosha,” the eminent Isaac Bashevis Singer, states: “The walls were covered by paintings of Jewish artists …. In a display cabinet there were some Jewish antiques, boxes with spices, a gold and silver benediction [...]

During our visit, a new study was released in Israel by the Guttman Center, which showed that there are more Israelis who identify as Reform or Conservative Jews than those who identify as ultra-Orthodox. This is interesting and important news! It shows that our Movement is growing and that Israelis are learning ways to develop [...]

Today has been our busiest day so far on our WRJ-Israel Mission, involving meetings with many of our institutional partners in the Reform Movement. It was a veritable alphabet soup of organizations: IRAC (Israel Religious Action Center) IMPJ (Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism) HUC-JIR (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) WUPJ (World Union for Progressive [...]

With a quiet Shabbat afternoon, Lynn and I finally have time to relax a bit and collect our thoughts about our past few days together. Yesterday (Friday) was another incredibly full day. Our Thursday overnight stay was in Jaffa, which we spent at Mishkenot Ruth Daniel, the Reform center that serves as a congregation, hotel, [...]