Can Challah Braiding Help a Teen Become a Future Rabbi?
Youth engagement is not merely youth being at programs or feeling a part of the community. Nor, conversely, is it merely attending a class or having knowledge and skills. True engagement requires finding the dynamic tension between these two processes.
Counting, Questioning and Creating
The themes of searching, accepting, believing, and more are just a few of the concepts from the holidays (and that teens are often wrestling with in their lives) that are present in our texts during the hagim. How can we use these themes to deepen experiences for our teens during the High Holy Days as well as throughout the rest of the year?
Shabbat Shelanu: Creating a Family Education Program for Today’s Families
Expanding our family education program wasn’t our original plan. However, we realized that we were only emphasizing family involvement in the lead up to B’nai Mitzvah, so we decided to seek long-term impact by expanding and aligning our program with the needs of our families.
Join Us: Demand Equality at Israel's Holiest Site
We need you to convey to the Israeli government the urgency and significance of equality for Reform and progressive Jews in Israel.
Check out the RAC's High Holiday Guide on Criminal Justice
Each day in this country, we are faced with harrowing truths about how our criminal justice system operates.
Things are Heating up around North Carolina's Anti-LGBTQ Legislation
On March 23, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed what has since been labelled “one of the most anti-LGBT bills in the nation” into law.
Demand Equality at Israel's Holiest Site
Last January, Israel's government resolved to include all forms of Jewish worship at the Kotel, Recently, however, it has successfully avoided implementing its own resolution.
Access to God
The concept of inclusion is currently a fundamental tenet of many organizations: private, public, not-for-profit and religious.
Announcing the Launch of the JewV'Nation Fellowship!
The JewV’Nation Fellowship represents the belief that a healthy Jewish people is possible only when individual Jews and their loved ones are included.
When the Synagogue Doesn't Feel Like Home
I'm uncomfortable entering unfamiliar synagogues - solely because I am mixed race, and people assume that I am not Jewish.