4 Jewish Ways to Take Part in #GivingTuesday
This #GivingTuesday, give back in one or more ways that are meaningful to you.
Meet This Year's Belin Award-Winning Congregations
Meet eight award-winning congregations that have developed innovative programs rooted in the concepts of audacious hospitality that also engage and retain members.
How One Synagogue Honored Loved Ones Lost – and Found Community Anew
Throughout the course of 12 years, Temple Shalom in Succasunna, N.J., experienced a number of hardships, ranging from financial difficulties to a decline in membership. As it turned out, though, the thing that would inspire this community to thrive once again was, well, the very community itself.
How a Suburban Synagogue is Creating Community by Hosting Events with a Big-City Vibe
How do you lead a congregation and create cohesive community when your synagogue exists between two distinct communities? That was one of the challenges facing Oak Park Temple, which sits between the west Chicago suburbs and the northwest part of Chicago in the suburb of Oak Park, where more young families are increasingly relocating
This Congregation Offers a Safe Space To Celebrate Passover
For individuals handling addiction and in recovery, the act of engaging with others as part of Jewish holidays and celebrations can be difficult.
How One Congregation Engages Israelis in Synagogue Life
Until recently, engaging Jewishly has not been easy for Israelis in Santa Barbara, CA, where religious life and Jewish identity are quite different than back home.
Gangsters, Immigrants, and Sweet’N Low
Rich Cohen, a prolific writer, is the author of 13 books, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, and co-wrote the television series, “Vinyl.”
This Congregation Started a Summer Camp for Refugee Kids – Led by a Teen
Congregation B’nai Israel in Sacramento, CA, created Camp Nefesh, a full-service day camp for newly arrived refugees. To learn more about this 2019 Belin Award-winning initiative, we spoke with Lucy Beckett, the teenager who dreamt up the concept, as well as Denise Crevin, the congregation’s director of education, and Sharon Rogoff of Women of B’nai Israel.
Lessons in Gratitude from a Jewish Humorist
We sat down with bestselling author, editor, and commentator A.J. Jacobs to talk about lessons he’s learned about thankfulness from his over-the-top social experiments.
The Thread that Connects the Tree of Life Synagogue, Kristallnacht, and Tishah B’Av
In the year since the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, I’ve been thinking about the antisemitic thread that runs through the tragedy.