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Sexual Assault Awareness Month Resources
The following are resources from Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April) but are applicable at all times.
Visit the New Congregational Update Portal
This is a quick and easy way to provide us with updates so that your congregation is listed correctly in our URJ congregation directory and so that all of your current leaders can receive appropriate occasional targeted information.
Ethics Accountability
The safety of every person in our community is our sacred moral responsibility. This is, and always will be, our highest priority. The URJ is committed to ensuring that our environments are safe, equitable, and inclusive for all. Learn about our ongoing work to create a culture that prioritizes safety and accountability.
High Holiday Courtesy Seating Request
Please fill out the form below to arrange for reciprocal seating at a URJ affiliated congregation when traveling during the High Holidays. Seating is available for members in good standing of their Home Congregation and is at the discretion of the Destination Congregation. All questions should be directed to Home
Send Free Ecards
Send free greetings for celebrating Jewish holidays, birthdays, graduations, weddings, bar or bat mitzvahs, the birth or adoption of a new baby, for travel to Israel, going to camp, or wishing a "mazel tov" for any occasion.
Release to Right the World
In anticipation of the shmita year 5775 (1994), Reform Judaism magazine interviewed Rabbi Kevin M. Kleinman, then associate rabbi of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, PA, and a member of the Jewish environmental organization Hazon’s Shmita Project Network.
The First Battle for a Free Pulpit
In a bitter and ironic twist of history, some rabbis have surrendered two hard-won victories of more than a century ago: the right to a free pulpit and to speak publicly in favor of Israel and Zionism. Both rights were secured largely through the efforts of Reform pioneer Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
Speaking Out Against Sexual Violence
I entered college on the eve of the SlutWalk revolution. A 12-year-old girl had been repeatedly assaulted in Texas, and the newspaper reporting on it cited a possible motive: she was wearing makeup.