We welcome members and non-members alike to reach out and
connect with the Union: ask a question, seek
further information, give us your opinion. Here is a reference to the many
avenues we provide for you to reach us.
But don’t just stop there: we encourage you to reach out and
connect with others in the Reform community. Engage, discuss, debate, and share
viewpoints with Reform Jews across North American and the world; find
connections with others who have similar interests, serve in similar roles in
their congregations, or who are on a parallel path in their exploration of
Judaism.
Subscribe to RSS feeds from the Union RSS is a web feed format used to
publish frequently updated items, such as blog entries or news stories, in a standardized format. They are typically used
in an RSS reader which is provided in services like iGoogle and
MyYahoo!.
Join an Affinity Group A Union Affinity Group is a new way to connect directly with other Reform Jews who care about the same issues you do. Each Affinity Group brings together those who share similar passions, questions, and approaches to Jewish life in general and congregational community in particular.
Join a listserv Share ideas, discuss, and debate with congregational leaders throughout the Reform Movement. Susbcribe to one of our many e-mail discussion lists.
RJ.org blog – News and Views of Reform Jews RJ.org is the place to get the News and Views of Reform Jews from around North America and the world. Filled with facts and opinions, action items, regular posts from Movement leaders and interesting tidbits from the greater Jewish world, this site is the platform where Reform Jews come together to chat, opine, kibbitz and learn in an online community. Join in the discussion, or submit your own blog posts to our editors.
A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a website, has regular entries of essays, commentary or other material such as graphics or video. The Blogosphere is the collective community of all blogs. Since all blogs are on the Internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked. Discussions "in the Blogosphere" have been used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues. (source: Technorati). Blogs with a Jewish focus are often referred to as J-Blogs, or part of the greater “J-Blogosphere”. For more information and interesting statistics about blogs and the scope of their influence, visit the comprehensive report by Technorati, State of the Blogosphere.
Become a fan of the Unions’ Facebook Page Facebook, with more than 200 million active users, is one of the largest social networking websites on the Internet. Users have a profile page where they can post photos, videos, interesting articles, links, notes, and give a current status update on what they are doing at any given moment, similar to Twitter (see below). Users can create and join groups to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.
Join the Union’s LinkedIn group LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site mainly used for professional networking. It currently has more than 42 million registered users, spanning 150 industries. Registered users maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. It is used for networking, job seeking and job placement, and hosts industry-specific discussion groups.
Follow the Union on Twitter Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Feedalizr or Facebook.
Join the Reform Judaism Flickr group photo pool Flickr is an image and video hostingwebsite, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Photos may be tagged and browsed by topic. We invite you to enjoy the photos in our group pool relating to all aspects of Reform Jewish life, and submit your own.
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