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A new trend shows that Jewish organizations are increasingly looking to tap camp alumni talents and energies -- not just their wallets -- and put them at the service of the broader Jewish world.
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.
Developed in partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), Nadiv will create three new permanent positions for senior-level experiential Jewish educators who will toggle their responsibilities between Reform nonprofit Jewish summer camps and day or synagogue schools.
Cookbook author Tina Wasserman, whose recent "Entree to Judaism: A Culinary Exploration of the Jewish Diaspora," is the first comprehensive cookbook published by the Reform movement, tells her audiences that "our stories are recipes and our recipes are stories."
While Goor and Kent have strong connections in the liberal Jewish community in Jerusalem, they are both aware that they will be entering a religious milieu markedly different from the pluralistic environment of Los Angeles.
Robin Leventhal, a student on the URJ's EIE in Israel Program, said she learned things in this penultimate semester of her high school career she does not think she could have understood in any other way.
The Campaign for Youth Engagement will help congregations focus on three spheres that have been proven to help maintain youth involvement, according to Pesner: early integration into synagogue life; attendance at Jewish camp or other immersion experiences; and, professional training of youth workers.
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