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URJ Youth Professional Development Interactive Learning Opportunities
We’re excited to introduce our brand new 3-Part Webinar Series for Spring 2018: Asking the Why: The Jewish in Jewish Youth Engagement!
8 Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah that Don’t Involve Gifts
Instead of eight days of gifts, here are eight ways to celebrate Hanukkah with your kids that relate the story and celebration for your enjoyment and to help you refocus your approach:
Promoting a Shared Society in Israel: Jews and Arabs Working Together
While Israel’s Arab minority has continued to grow (it’s now more than 20% of the entirety of Israel’s population), the tension between Jews and Arabs in Israel has continued to rise.
Purim and Women's Rights
Purim: A Study Guide on Women's Issues; Women's Rights We encourage you to use these Jewish texts and study questions to consider our Jewish values that speak to the issue of women’s rights and how they relate to human rights in general.
Affliction Beyond Hunger
Affliction Beyond Hunger by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice In our city today, some of our neighbors are forced to work in order to receive their meager welfare benefits, which barely enable them to survive.
Thanksgiving and Hunger
ADDRESSING HUNGER As we sit down with our family and friends at the Thanksgiving table and offer thanks for the bounty that is ours, we often forget about the thousands of people in America, Canada and around the world who do not share our prosperity.
Thanksgiving and Interfaith Relations
Interfaith Relations Since coming to North America, the Jewish community has reached out to other religious groups in order to make Thanksgiving an inter-faith day of worship, dialogue, and celebration.
Thanksgiving and Native American Relations
Native American and Jewish Relations The legend of the Thanksgiving story is known by every American and is retold from generation to generation. Although the American Indians are a central part of the Thanksgiving lore, our relationship with Native Americans, or First Nations, is minimal.
Independence and Canada Day: Immigrant Rights
INDEPENDENCE DAY AND CANADA DAY Immigrant Rights Although Independence Day or Canada Day might seem to be a strange time of year to welcome immigrants into our community, the aspects of freedom and patriotism that pervade Independence Day makes this a wonderful time to begin thinking about immigrant
Sukkot Explained, for Families with Young Children
On the 15 th of Tishrei, just five days after Yom Kippur ends, we usher in the holiday of Sukkot (translated into English as “booths” or “huts”). Sukkot , our Festival of Booths, is a festival of thanksgiving: for the food we have harvested, the homes we are so privileged to call our own, and for the natural world that surrounds us