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Creating a Culture of Kindness
I sat down with Dr. Bruce Powell and Dr. Ron Wolfson via Zoom to discuss their significant new book, Raising A+ Human Beings: Crafting a Jewish School Culture of Academic Excellence and AP Kindness.
Ensuring the Sacred and the Ethical in Sacred Partnership
The URJ offers resources that address the challenges of building sacred partnerships and leading our institutions at this moment in time. We strongly suggest that you take a look at them and begin to apply what makes sense to ensure that you put as much care into how healthy your organization is emotionally as it is physically. Many of these are offered in partnership with movement partners.
Congregational Guides
These publications are useful tools for congregational lay leaders, clergy, educators, and other staff managing social action programming and socially responsible practices.
Federal Security Funding & Policies
Fedral security funding and policies for congregations
Resources for Synagogue Security in the 21st Century
Resources for Synagogue Security in the 21st Century
Sentencing Reform Call-In Day Talking Points
In the U.S. Senate, a bipartisan bill known as the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S. 2123) has been introduced and successfully voted out of committee.
Social Justice Blessing Cards
Begin your social justice project, meeting, Mitzvah Day or special occasion with a blessing! Our wallet-sized blessing cards are standard business card-sized, 2" x 3.5" and can be printed right from your home or office printer.
L'Taken Issue-Based Programs
Downloadable Social Justice Text Study (ready to print) Climate Change Program Materials Action Alert: Tell Congress to Support the Green Climate Fund Climate Change Living Talmud (ready to print) Climate Change Living Talmud Discussion Questions PowerPoint Presentation: Green Climate Fund Economic
Isabel P. Dunst: Biography
Isabel P. Dunst is the incoming chair of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, as of January 2016. A Member of the URJ Board (and formerly a Vice Chair), she served as President of Temple Sinai of Washington, DC from 1994 to 1996, and is currently an Officer of that congregation.