Migrant Children Belong in Schools, Not Cages
Learn what one rabbi said at a civil disobedience event to protest child detention that was attended by more than 350 faith leaders in Washington, D.C. on June 12, 2019.
This Jewish Feminism Fellowship Empowers Teens to Be a Force for Good
Moving Tradition’s Kol Koleinu fellowship, offered in collaboration with NFTY: The Reform Jewish Youth Movement, invites young Jewish feminists of all genders
How a Songleading Fellowship Will Help Teens Lead the Way
This fall, the URJ will launch a Teen Songleading Fellowship that will road-test the best ways to identify and support more songleaders than ever across North America.
A New Report Shows the Troubling Status of International Religious Freedom
Attacks on people of faith are animated by white supremacy and white nationalism, which are on the rise. Dismantling this system of hate “requires deep partnership across all communities affected.”
To Rise: A Poem for Healing
In this week’s Torah portion, just as Moses cries out to the Eternal to heal Miriam, his sister, so, too, does poet Stacey Zisook Robinson pray for her own healing.
How to Affirm Life in the Wake of Tragedy
Our congregation dedicated a living memorial, a tree, to “keep alive” the memory of those who lost their lives to hate and violence at the Pittsburgh synagogue last fall.
4 Ways to Take Action for Equality Beyond Pride Month
Much progress has been made since the Stonewall uprising in June 1969, but the fight for LGBTQ equality, protection, and inclusion continues in our communities.
On World Refugee Day, the U.S. must meet and expand its resettlement commitments
June 19, 2019
Dear Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives:
The Things Other People Say to Small-Town Jews
I have many friends in town, but most are not temple members. They’re unaffiliated Jews, church-goers, or, as one friend succinctly put it, “believers but not belongers.”