8 Principles that Drive Strong Congregations
All congregational leaders are looking for the magic formula to success, the one that will ensure that their members are happy, engaged, and Jewishly fulfilled, and that their budgets are balanced.
We Made It: Climbing Mount Neshef with the Support of My Jewish Community
In that moment, atop Mount Neshef, we weren’t two teenagers on the side of a mountain in Israel, but two bright-eyed campers, looking up at the camp's climbing tower for the first time.
How One Congregation Transformed a Display of Welcome
Learn how one congregation, working together as a community, achieved a positive outcome for LGBTQIA+ inclusion.
This Weekend: 7 Ways to Act Now for Immigrant Justice
Here are seven ways to act for immigrant justice – right now, from wherever you’re sitting, near the border or otherwise. You have the power to make a difference in the lives of the thousands of individuals impacted at our borders
Why We Are Bearing Witness at the Border
I’m here in El Paso this weekend because I worship a God who is impatient with injustice, a God who demands that migrants must not be wronged.
'Impatient with injustice': Rabbi Rick Jacobs' call for immigrant rights
The following are Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs' prepared remarks for the speech he delivered at the Moral Monday mass gathering in El Paso on July 28, 2019.
What immigration activists at the border need from Reform Jews
RAC Immigration Justice Director Dr. Julia Paley in Juarez, Mexico with URJ President Rabbi Rick Jacobs and Imam Omar Suleiman
“Did Something Happen?” How We Started the Work of Becoming an Anti-Racist Synagogue
We started as five people active in social justice work who were trying to figure out what it means to be white, living in a society rooted in structural racism and inequality.
4 Ways to Practice Active Listening in Your Role as a Leader
As Jewish leaders, we are tasked with improving our congregations and communities for everyone within them; listening to our members’ feedback, requests, and concerns, with the intent of understanding them, is the first step in the process of making improvements.
Shabbat: A Time to Sing and a Time to Listen
Often, it’s unrealistic to go from our hectic daily life to Shabbat without a buffer between the two – time to take a breath, adjust, unwind, and re-orient our thinking.