This month the URJ highlights Caring Community resources and Jewish Disability Awareness Month, including discussions on the blog, "101" guides and resources for making your congregation more inclusive and connected.
"Jewish Arbor Day" falls on February 8th this year. Find creative programming, worship guides, seders, greening opportunities, and more ways to celebrate in your community.
Register now for Social Media Boot Camp, a year-long program of webinars, and learn how to use social networking tools to connect with current and potential members. Sign up for RJ WebBuilder 2.0 and get your congregation a dynamic, cutting-edge website. Both are benefits of URJ membership.
For the second year, the URJ is offering Incubator Grants to member congregations. Up to 20 projects will be funded a maximum of $5,000 for seed funding for innovative new projects designed to actively engage more people in Reform synagogue life. Applications are due Feb. 28.
The 6,000 attendees at the URJ's 71st Biennial conference near Washington, DC - the largest ever - heard from national and international leaders and saw a historic changeover of leadership. Read and comment on speeches, watch videos, see photos and learn more about what happened.
Philadelphia’s Jewish newspaper is in a flap with organizers of a boycott, divestment and sanctions conference over the disinvitation of one of its reporters from the event.
Though Susan G. Komen for the Cure reversed itself, the widespread outrage sparked by its decision to drop funding of mammograms by Planned Parenthood is a sign of the passions surrounding women's health and reproduction issues.