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"What Will You Do at Such a Time as This?"

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner

Editor's note: The text that follows was presented before a live audience at the 2019 URJ Biennial.

Only a few short years after the founding of the United States of America, George Washington expressed in an exchange of letters with the Hebrew Congregation

The Three Main Challenges of Global Judaism Today

Isaac Herzog

How do we prevent an irreversible rift between the two major communities together with all others – between what I call Jerusalem and Babylon, 7 million Jews in Israel and 7 million Jews in North America?

A Post-Biennial Round-Up: The Addresses You Want to (Re-)Read

Kate Bigam Kaput

Whether you want to re-read your favorite addresses from the Biennial or will be experiencing them here for the first time, we're doing our best to get everything online and available to you. Stay tuned all week long as we continue to update this list with links to additionall addresses.

"As Numerous as the Stars of Heaven"

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

There are people out there that are looking for the authentic, meaningful experience that we offer, and as long as I have the great honor of leading our movement, we’re not going to walk away from them. Not now, not ever. 

"We Love Being Jewish"

Daryl Messinger

"I’ve been amazed, impressed, and inspired by all the ways large and small, that we demonstrate our love for being Jewish."

A Prayer for the URJ Biennial 2019

Alden Solovy

"May the One who blessed our mothers and our fathers, our parents and our ancestors, bless the organizers and participants in the URJ Biennial 2019."