Follow along for 5 days of music, prayer, study, community, and inspiration at the 70th Biennial, this week in Toronto. See the latest news, photos, and videos.
Hundreds of teens gather at the NFTY Leaders Assembly in Toronto, November 5-8 to learn, pray, expand leadership skills and network with other youth leaders from across the Movement.
The new, first-in-the-nation Jewish sports specialty camp in Greensboro, NC opens in June of 2010. Visit their new website where you can apply for a job, see photos, and learn about what's in store for campers in this exciting new facility.
Post-G-20 Summit, Reform congregations can continue to focus on ways to promote an awareness of environmental considerations and environmentally responsible acts by integrating Jewish values, learning and actions that promote shomrai adamah - protection and renewal of the world.
Raise your voice: visit the RAC's new website to sign a petition, download a helpful guide to the debate, and get materials for your congregation to advocate for health care reform in every state.
In a unanimous vote today, the Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism endorsed the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the bill currently being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Ambassador Michael Oren, Israeli Minister of Minority Affairs Avishay Braverman and Jordan's King Abdullah to speak to largest gathering of Jews in North America
Green is the color of choice for the Union of Reform Judaism's 70th Biennial Convention, which will take place November 4–8 in Toronto. In an effort to make the 2009 Biennial the most sustainable yet, the Reform Movement is taking steps to reduce energy, water, and paper use, increase recycling and use of recycled materials, and incorporate environmentally conscious themes into the convention programming.
Yoffie: The UN Human Rights Council endorsement of the Goldstone report does not further the cause of peace, or give reason for Israel to believe the international community takes seriously the significant security issues with which it contends.
Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, has the air of someone who enjoys being a little unorthodox. I suppose you have to be to leave behind a comfortable Upper West Side upbringing, spend six years leading a community in Japan, and after that set up shop in post-Communist Poland. He’s an Orthodox rabbi who was originally ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a vegetarian in a meat-and-potatoes country, and seemed to relish telling me about seeing the Grateful Dead perform at Nassau Coliseum in 1973.
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