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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.
Italian Cheesecake
Made with the ricotta instead of cream cheese and sour cream, this recipe definitely hails from close to the Mediterranean.
Mom's Honey Cake with Apple Confit
Honey cake is traditionally eaten for Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year—the honey’s sweetness symbolizes our wishes for a sweet year. This is my mother's recipe, which she makes in Israel, freezes, and sends to me in the mail.
Dulce de Manzana (Apple Preserves)
Turkish Sephardic Jews serve this sweet apple preserve as they wish their family and friends a sweet new year.
A Greening Glossary: Quick Reference
Just what is sustainability? What is "organic"? Do I have a carbon footprint? And what exactly does it mean to be green? The Green Glossary is a compilation of environment-related words and phrases and their definitions.
FAQs About Greening
Find out the answers to some of the most frequently asked greening questions. You can scroll down and browse all frequently asked questions or choose from the list below to jump to a specific question Is environmentalism a Jewish Issue? Yes!
Text Study on the Environment - Caring for the Land
Leader's Materials: You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine years.
Text Study on the Environment - Environmental Legislation
Leader's Materials Carcasses, cemeteries and tanneries must be kept at fifty cubits’ distance from a town. A tannery can only be set up on the east side of a town [because the east wind is gentle and will not carry the fumes to the town.] Mishnah, Baba Batra 2:9.