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Two of L.A.'s wealthiest congregations, including the Reform University Synagogue, have welcomed an unfamiliar sort of professional to their regular synagogue staffs: a social worker.
New effort, spearheaded by the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) and the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), is aimed at making Jewish education a year-round experience.
Rabbi Marci Bellows asks: How many of us Jewish adults know how to give ourselves a true Shabbat, a day of rest, a day to recharge, and a day to reconnect with our divine nature?
Rabbis Saperstein and Feldman: "We urge you to use your leadership in Komen for the Cure to reinstate funding to PPFA for breast cancer screening, to reconsider the standard by which the organization makes funding decisions, and to continue to fight for the health and lives of women everywhere."
Among the signers is the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest synagogue denomination in the United States, and the head of the Orthodox Union, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States.
There is little doubt that the kind of influence that camp has had on synagogue worship in the Reform movement is paralleled by similar influence elsewhere in the Jewish community.
The URJ's Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell gives her interpretation of this week's parashah: Parshat Bo describes both the birth-pangs of the Jewish people and the directions for future generations to remember that birth.
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