18 Facebook Posts Your Congregation Should Try
Here are 18 ways your synagogue can experiment with Facebook this year. Give ‘em a try and tell us what works best!
For Refugees, Is There a Promised Land?
This Shabbat, we will read Parashat Mishpatim, the sixth parshah in the book of Exodus. In Mishpatim, the Israelites have begun what will be 40 years of wandering through the desert after the Exodus from Egypt.
2016: Hottest Year on Record
Scientists and climate experts recently announced that 2016 is the hottest year on record, part of a continuing trend where we are seeing with rising global average temperatures.
Relationships Are at the Heart of Our Youth Engagement Work
As a newcomer to the URJ Youth Summit at NFTY Convention, I let the experience wash right over me, taking in inspiration, sparks, and ideas as they came
For Refugees, Is There a Promised Land?
Even in the face of obstacles, we are obligated – both because we accepted God’s commandment to welcome the stranger and because we faced challenges on our journey to the Promised Land – to continue fighting to welcome the stranger.
My (Privileged) Struggle to Find Meaning in Jewish Peoplehood
Weeks after I prayed at the Western Wall at the start of the new Hebrew month of Adar II, I still struggle to find meaning in the concept of Jewish peoplehood.
Mourning the Fire at Notre Dame: A Rabbi's Perspective
In March 2012, I visited Paris in my capacity as then-president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ). I’d just attended the European Union for Progressive Judaism’s convention in Amsterdam.
Riding Out of Missoula, MT, with Torah on My Mind
I cannot possibly imagine that I will think often and fondly of this day in Missoula: the day that, borrowing on Rabbi Laurie's strength and wisdom, I carried the Torah and tried to make the world just a little bit better.
#GamAni: My #MeToo Story as a Jewish Male Survivor
My sexual harassment was treated – by my harasser, by my peers, and even by my teachers – as “just a joke,” as though the violation of my body was something to laugh at. My experience is not unique.
A New Jewish Initiative Will Stand Up for Immigrant and Refugee Justice
On the eve of Yom HaShoah, the Kraus Family Foundation and the Union for Reform Judaism announced a new initiative to galvanize people to action around the immigration and refugee crisis in the U.S.