Four Ways to Deepen Your Commitment to Social Justice With the RAC
We are living in an urgent time. Reform Jewish communities are pursuing justice through the Brit Olam at the local, state/provincial, and federal levels to bring about a world in which all people experience wholeness, justice, and compassion.
"Our security comes in our solidarity. Our safety comes through our democracy."
Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center, made the following remarks at the 2019 URJ Biennial in Chicago.
Mark Your Calendar for NFTY Convention 2021… at URJ Greene Family Camp!
We’re beyond excited to announce that that NFTY Convention is going to camp! We hope you’ll plan to join us February 12-15, 2021, at URJ Greene Family Camp in Bruceville, TX, where we’ll bring all our favorite parts of camp to NFTY Convention.
Are You In? 5 Takeaways from the 2019 URJ Biennial
With the 2019 URJ Biennial in our rear-view mirror, we’re now focused on how we can move this work forward and into our everyday lives. Ready to act? Here's how.
How You Can Be an Agent of Change in Your Congregation
We, as a movement – as leaders of Reform congregational life in North America – are going to have to want change and want to change. And all of us will lead that change. Will you commit to becoming an agent of change in your congregation?
A Post-Biennial Round-Up: The Addresses You Want to (Re-)Read
Whether you want to re-read your favorite addresses from the Biennial or will be experiencing them here for the first time, we're doing our best to get everything online and available to you. Stay tuned all week long as we continue to update this list with links to additionall addresses.
Reform Movement backs study of reparations for U.S. slavery at Biennial
At the Union for Reform Judaism's Biennial in Chicago last week, the Reform Movement voted to approve a resolution supporting the study of proposals for U.S. slavery reparations.
4 Ways to Deepen Your Commitment to Social Justice With the RAC
We are living in an urgent time. Reform Jewish communities are pursuing justice through the Brit Olam at the local, state/provincial, and federal levels to bring about a world in which all people experience wholeness, justice, and compassion.
We Can't Let Antisemites Determine Our Judaism
Today, Jews around the world are frightened and shell-shocked at the seemingly sudden reemergence of antisemitism. It is a hatred that is age-old. We see a rise of antisemitism on the right and on the left, and it leaves us bewildered.
How Can We Start Experimenting with Change in a Big Way?
"I’m here to tell you that we – as a Movement, as leaders of Reform congregational life in North America – are going to have to want change, want to change, and all of us will need to lead that change."