10 Ways to Create a Welcoming Culture in Your Congregation
Leaders at almost every synagogue would say their congregation strives to be a welcoming community. The challenge, of course, is how to put that into practice.
Leaders at almost every synagogue would say their congregation strives to be a welcoming community. The challenge, of course, is how to put that into practice.
The Reform Movement’s Audacious Hospitality work seeks to understand and support the realities of modern Jewish life. At the heart of our team’s holy work is the belief that all of us can stand stronger when we welcome and incorporate Jewish diversity into all facets of Jewish communal life.
I don’t have all of the answers about how to accomplish the challenge of engaging Jewish millennials, but here are three of the insights I have gained from simple conversations with them.
The JewV’Nation Fellowship represents the belief that a healthy Jewish people is possible only when individual Jews and their loved ones are included.
As a person with a disability, I request accommodations, but they are often met by a lack of awareness or a lack of a response.
Let’s treat every person who connects to our communities like both a family member coming home and an honored guest. Here are six ways to do just that.
As a married couple researching families like ours, we shaour new book shares red our findings about how households that combine Jewish and Asian traditions seem to have vibrant religious, cultural, and intellectual Judaism within them, even when both parents may not be Jewish.
As calls for criminal justice reform continue to spark national debate, the largest-ever gathering of Jews of color convened this week in New York City to discuss matters of racial justice inside and outside the Jewish community.
Of nine Reform congregations in the Greater Toronto Area, two, including City Shul, did not exist five years ago. Its relatively small but growing membership includes black Jews, Asian Jews, an active transgender and many converts.
There are many creative ways to include all members of an interfaith family and those connected to them.