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2019 Consultation on Conscience Livestream Recordings
Thank you for joining us for the 2019 Consultation on Conscience livestream. Below are the recorded livestreams of all plenary programs, featuring speakers like voting rights activist Desmond Meade ( recently named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People), Rev. Dr.
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.
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.
Sample Sermon on the Environment - Rabbi Irwin A. Zeplowitz
by Irwin A. Zeplowitz written for Union for Reform Judaism's 10 Minutes of Torah Near the end of the 1999 film Magnolia, there is a frightening scene of a rain of frogs. At first humorous, it suddenly turns horrific, even deadly.