The Quadrant Method: A High Holiday Scenario-Planning Resource
The URJ is pleased to be working with our Movement partners (including HUC-JIR, CCAR, ACC, NATA, ARJE, ECE-RJ, PEP-RJ, NFTY, and others) to offer the best collaborative thinking and the most comprehensive resources to guide your visioning and planning.
8 Essays to Honor and Remember Jewish Military Members
Memorial Day isn’t a Jewish holiday but remembering and honoring fallen military is certainly a Jewish value. Let us remember those who gave their lives in battle.
Feminism, Female Protagonists, and Finding Ourselves in Biblical Narratives
To honor the uncounted women in the Book of Numbers and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the U.S. this year, Rabbi Carole Balin, Ph.D., has crafted an “alternative Book of Numbers” for her weekly Torah commentaries for Ten Minutes of Torah.
How to Avoid COVID-19-Inspired Partisanship in Our Congregational Communities
As COVID-19-related challenges escalate, we ask how our methodology and experience might shield the Jewish community from partisan torches and pitchforks. Here’s an approach to healthy decision-making under these circumstances.
How and Why Reform Jews Should Get Involved in the 2020 Elections
Civic engagement, with voting at its center, is essential to our Reform Jewish values. Our sacred texts teach us that every voice in the community must be heard when it comes to making important decisions. Here's how to get involved this year.
How Our Synagogue Hosted a Successful "Zoom-a-Thon" Fundraiser
When the coronavirus pandemic forced us to cancel our annual gala, Congregation Kol Ami in White Plains, N.Y., turned to technology to raise needed funds and to bring our community together.
B'ruchim Haba'im - Welcome Back to Wholly Jewish: Season 2!
Welcome to the first episode of Wholly Jewish: Season 2! Hosted by Jewish performance and ritual artist Shira Kline (she/her), a.k.a. ShirLaLa, this season features interviews with LGBTQIA+ Jews from the Union for Reform Judaism's JewV'Nation Fellowship.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - What Is Blasphemy, Anyway? - Emor
In ancient times, crimes of blasphemy were punished by stoning - but what does it really mean today to blaspheme? Rabbi Rick Jacobs explains the biblical prohibition against Chilul HaShem, desecrating God's name, and talks about what we are called to do to combat it.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Do You Really Care? Bechukotai Behar
How much do you care about the environment? Yourself? Other people? Rabbi Rick Jacobs talks about our fundamental responsibility to care for God’s earth and attend to the neediest among us. It’s not a newfangled, 21st-century idea; it’s literally what our age-old biblical text calls for.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Our Multiracial Jewish Community - B'midbar
The Torah commands us to take a census of the “whole Israelite community” – but who does the counting, and who, exactly, is counted?