How Our Youth Programs Make a Difference
Results of our latest impact study indicate that Reform Movement youth experiences translate into greater Jewish engagement in college and throughout life.
It's Here! Check Out the Fall Webinar Line-up for Youth Professionals
We’re pleased to share a new line-up of online learning and training opportunities for educators, youth professionals, lay leaders and other adults working with Reform youth and teens.
Carrying the Spirit of Sukkot Into the Rest of the Year
Israel is more than what makes the headlines. It is also filled with people who will reach across the divide and give you the opportunity to be in community together.
Update on URJ Congregations and Hurricane Michael
As Hurricane Michael continues to leave widespread destruction throughout Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, here's how to stay up-to-date and offer assistance.
Seeking Truth as Jewish Americans: You're Invited to HUC-JIR's Upcoming Symposium
Symposium 2, an upcoming gathering at HUC-JIR in Los Angeles, will help us think through implications of today’s epistemological crises for contemporary Jews and Judaism.
How I Plan to Talk to My Daughter about God
We will tell her that God is many different things to many people, and no one’s ideas about God are wrong or better than anyone else’s.
Let's Talk Midterms: Civic Engagements Updates from the RAC
Here are just a few of the ways you can get involved with the RAC this month – plus a few other updates of social justice work from around the Movement:
Why I Testified at a Public Hearing on Clean Vehicle Emissions Standards
“I’m fifteen years old, and a sophomore in high school. In my decade and a half living in America, I have inhaled the equivalent of about five-thousand-five-hundred cigarettes, when in reality I’ve never touched one. I’m only a teenager and that is an outrageous number. There are millions of people who have breathed this poor air for far longer than me, getting sicker and sicker with every breath they take. It is shameful that so many Americans - 150,000 - die prematurely each year from preventable pollution related causes.”
“I’m fifteen years old, and a sophomore in high school. In my decade and a half living in America, I have inhaled the equivalent of about five-thousand-five-hundred cigarettes, when in reality I’ve never touched one. I’m only a teenager and that is an outrageous number. There are millions of people who have breathed this poor air for far longer than me, getting sicker and sicker with every breath they take. It is shameful that so many Americans - 150,000 - die prematurely each year from preventable pollution related causes.”
Op-Ed: The One Speech Netanyahu Will Never Make to Diaspora Jews
Imagine if PM Benjamin Netanyahu, as he begins his remarks to next week in Tel Aviv, decided to honor true dialogue - and not the teleprompter.
The Waldheim Waltz: Notes from The Authoritarian Playbook
Ruth Beckermann’s new film is a persuasive accounting of the life and political career of Kurt Josef Waldheim, laying bare the revelations about his World War II military service.