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Marketing & Communications

Digital Content to Enliven Your Passover Seder

URJ staff and Reform Movement partners

You already know how to host a beautiful, profound, and Jewishly meaningful seder. What you may not yet know, though, is how to re-imagine your usual traditions to incorporate digital content that will enliven this year’s virtual rendition of your seder.  

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Congregational Benefits & Services

Easily Manage Human Resources Needs with JHR

Rabbi Adam Grossman
We are pleased to announce the launch of JHR, a human resources solution specifically designed for URJ-affiliated congregations. We developed JHR to help address your most pressing HR needs: overwhelming administrative duties, payroll tasks, professional development, staff benefits, and legal compliance.
Congregational Benefits & Services

A New Year, A New Tent

Larry Glickman, FTA
Recognizing that expectations around technology and connection have changed through the years, we have made the decision to move The Tent to a new platform called Mighty Networks, and we think that you will enjoy the new user experience and opportunities to connect and learn together.
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LGBTQ+ Jewish Life

Standing for Inclusion and Love

Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg
"What if people protest the program and disrupt Shabbat?" I admit, I heard a loud voice in my head repeating this question as our Pride Shabbat festivities approached last June.
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Interfaith Family

Interfaith Inclusion in Our Communities

Rabbi Julie Zupan
Crystal Hill
Reform Judaism stands for a Judaism that is inclusive and encourages the participation of all members of interfaith families in our communities. Here are some steps we can take as community leaders to affirm members of interfaith families, ensure they know they are valued and understood as critical members of our Reform communities, and do our best to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to experience a sense of belonging.
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teens

At Camp Dream Street, ‘Nothing is Impossible’ for Kids with Disabilities

Kate Bigam Kaput
NFTY founded Dream Street in 1975 with the belief that all kids should have the chance to have fun, make friends, try new experiences, and bring all of their identities to summer camp. Each summer, Dream Street accepts about 60 campers who have disabilities and/or mobility impairments like cerebral palsy, spina bifida, limb differences, and spinal cord injuries.