On his recent visit to Los Angeles to meet with congregants, clergy, synagogue staff and lay leaders, Rabbi Jacobs sat down with the Jewish Journal's Rob Eshman to discuss the future of the URJ and the Reform Movement. Read more »
We need a massive initiative, a focused, strategic effort to ensure that we leverage the full strength and talent of every corner of the Jewish world. Read more »
A Texas athletic league has reversed course and will reschedule tournament games that will enable a Jewish day school, the Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston, to compete. Read more »
Kol Barama radio station tells Knesset's Committee on the Status of Women that keeping females voices off the airwaves was strictly a business decision. Read more »
Three summers ago, we met at URJ Kutz Camp, not knowing that in the following year both our paths would lead us to Kibbutz Lotan's Green Apprenticeship program, that we'd come out of the program with a passion for building Eco-Villages at Jewish summer camps. Read more »
In an effort to achieve our values-inspired vision of food justice five organizations, including the URJ, formed the Jewish Farm Bill Working Group. Read more »
With a variety of outlets and institutions for Jews to find expression for their Judaism, synagogues must adapt to changing trends if they are to have a future, said the URJ's Rabbi Elliott Kleinman. Read more »
As Israeli Supreme Court president Dorit Beinisch steps down from her post as chief justice, a battle is raging to limit the court's power -- or at least fill it with more conservative justices. Read more »
The Mujahedin-e Khalq, a controversial Iranian dissident group, is adding prominent pro-Israel figures to its campaign to get off the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations. Read more »
The Jewish Early Childhood Leadership Education Institute (JECELI) is recruiting aspiring Jewish early childhood educators for 15 months of intensive professional development. Read more »
URJ's Early Childhood Education Specialist Cathy Rolland invites you to ponder: What are the greatest challenges facing your congregation's early childhood center, and how is your leadership dealing with them? Read more »
Got Shabbat is early childhood educators' and parents' go-to guide for teaching Torah to tots. Visit the Got Shabbat mainpage for Shabbat resources and be sure to peruse the Parshiyot Library for a Got Shabbat for nearly every parashah. Read more »
Engaging and retaining young families is key to the life of every synagogue. This practical guide offers real-world tips from experts in the field. Read more »
Who is the first man in the Torah to “love” a woman? What does the “Sage of Love,” Rabbi Akiva, teach us about the ideal of human love? Read about these topics and more in RJ’s new issue. Read more »
Teen participants in NFTY's Mitzvah Corps can volunteer in communities in need across the US or mentor fellow teens with Autism at Kutz Camp. Read more »
Summer Learning Institute -August 8-12, 2012, in Cincinnati, Ohio: Choose from Had'rachah for lay lead services; Kallah, a Jewish text study program; or the Schindler Fellows for Interfaith Certification to work with interfaith members.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie: "I am no pacifist. Wars are necessary sometimes, whether of words or of military might. But religions don't look for wars where they don't exist, and they never thrive on military metaphors." Read more »
Rabbi Rex Perlmeter responds to Rabbi Eric Yoffie's recent blog post entitled "Religious but not Spiritual." Rabbi Perlmeter insists, "We can have it both ways. We must have it both ways." Read more »
Why does Parashah T'tzaveh spend so much time describing the priestly garments? Rabbi Lucy H. F. Dinner examines some of the messages they send in this week's Torah reading. Read more »
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