How to Give Your Services Fresh Air and Sunshine This Summer
Outdoor services offering kid-friendly, informal or abbreviated worship, and camp-style music are popular during the summer. Here’s a sampling of good ol’ summertime Shabbat celebrations in some Reform congregations across North America.
Accounting for Native Americans in Federal Funding
This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Naso, includes the dedication of the Tabernacle the Israelites have been building as they wander through the wilderness.
How a Holocaust Survivor Led a Hijacker to Confront His Conscience
Captain Michel Bacos and the crew of their hijacked Air France Airbus refused to abandon the 94 Israeli and Jewish passengers who had been selected as hostages by the team of Palestinian and German terrorists who forced the plane to land at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport on June 27, 1976.
Remembering Charleston, One Year Later
On June 17, 2015, one year ago today, nine people were killed at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina when a 21-year-old man opened fire in a weekly Bible study.
Promoting Environmental Justice through New Methane Emission Standards
Climate change and poor air quality, often caused by methane pollution, disproportionately impact communities that contribute the least to pollution. We cannot live in a truly just society until we address this undue burden.
Turbulent Battle Over D.C. Budget Autonomy
In 2013, voters in the District of Columbia were asked on their ballots if they support granting the District autonomy over how it spends locally-raised funds.
Synagogue Innovation is the Key to Strengthening Jewish Life
If conventional wisdom reigned supreme, it would be easy to imagine that many of our venerable congregations – those steeped in history and tradition – are, by definition, ill-equipped to adapt to the complex and sometimes confusing trends in contemporary Jewish life. Supposedly enlightened students of contemporary Jewish life regularly suggest that when it comes to congregations and denominations, “large” means “lethargic” and “old” means “obsolete.” To their way of thinking, “new” means “noteworthy,” and “small” means “sustainable.” The Jewish future, they claim, belongs to small, innovative start-ups.
In my view, their thinking is misguided and I’d like to challenge it.
Jewish, Trans, and Still in High School: One Teen Activist's Story
By the time she was 3 years old, Jazz Jennings (not her original first name or her real last name) knew she was meant to be a girl. In her new book Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teenager, Jazz tells her story, including how she and her family became reality TV stars and outspoken advocates for transgender rights.
God is Counting on Us to Make Their Memories a Blessing
What is the proper religious response to acts of barbarism like the massacre we saw perpetrated against members of the LGBT community in Orlando on Sunday?