Catch every exciting highlight of last week. Watch video of musical performances, speeches, tributes, and exclusive interviews at the Biennial in Toronto.
It's not too soon to start looking forward to the Festival of Lights. Prepare to celebrate with recipes, activities for children, social action ideas, and much more.
Full coverage of the "family reunion" of Reform Judaism, the 70th Biennial: blog posts, video, photos, speeches, and resolutions. (Photo by Steve Medwin)
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie delivered his sermon during Shabbat morning services at the Toronto Biennial, outlining initiatives for Reform leaders to bring back to their congregations. Read the full text, see video of his address, and give us your opinions on the blog.
At the Biennial in Toronto, Rabbi Yoffie urged the Reform Movement to create congregational blogs and experiment with a range of creative technological approaches to strengthen community ties. Learn about this initiative and what the Union is doing to help congregations.
Rabbi Yoffie calls for a commitment to ethical eating, asking synagogue leaders to "carefully, thoughtfully, Jewishly" formulate new eating guidelines for their communities. The Union has created program guides for developing new food policies, planting community gardens, and educating membership about righteous, healthy eating.
The November 4-8 biennial event for the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), serving Reform congregations in North America, ended with nine resolutions, three of which pertained to the Middle East.
Remember the old refrain, "You are what you eat?" Some in the Jewish community have taken that message to heart, and are pushing to redefine the boundaries of kashrut.
Israel has to change the way it treats its Arab citizens and the haredim, allocating resources more equitably to the former and having the latter "go back to work," Knesset member Avishay Braverman, Israel's minister of minority affairs, said at the opening evening plenary of the Reform Judaism's (URJ) 70th biennial convention last week.
Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen’s office is in a sun-drenched room overlooking the city’s main canal, the Amstel. On table in the center sat four glasses emblazoned with the city’s logo, which also adorns the outside of the building, the ID pass I was issued, and a flag that flies from the building’s roof. The logo: three red "X"’s. Talk about unsubtle.
Canada's opposition Liberal Party is crying foul after the ruling Conservatives mailed out flyers extolling themselves as stronger supporters of Israel.
Last year philanthropist Leonid Nevzlin was convicted in absentia in a Moscow courtroom to life in prison for ordering the murder of five people. Israel has refused to extradite him, and last week he was playing a lead role in Washington at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations of North America, introducing Prime Minister Netanyahu and taking part in a White House meeting with President Obama.
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