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Leadership Lessons from Our Time in the Desert

Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch

During college, I lived on a kibbutz in the Arava desert in southern Israel. At dawn and twilight, I hiked while admiring the striking red mountains just over the eastern border with Jordan and the subtle peaks of the Negev Highlands to the west. I was in the

Becoming Bet Mitzvah

Rabbi Linda Joseph
Rabbi Evan Schultz
Rabbi Gubitz outlined why many synagogues across the country are adopting a more gender inclusive term to name the Jewish coming of age ceremony traditionally called bat or bar mitzvah. Many communities striving to be places of belonging are wondering which term to use in their congregations.

High Holy Day Tickets – Money and Information

Rabbi Fred Guttman
As congregational leaders, we do our best to make our High Holy Day services some of the most memorable (and beautiful) of the year. Of course, Bloomingdale’s displays are meant to entice customers inside so that they purchase something. However, we offer something of much greater value that should not come with a price tag: community.

A Tale of Two Congregations

Kate Bigam Kaput
It’s been a century and a half since the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, now the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), was founded in Cincinnati. Since 1873, the URJ has grown into the largest and most powerful force in North American Jewish life, serving nearly 850 congregations and carrying out work that inspires millions of people.

The Fight for Maternal Healthcare in Texas

Emily Bourgeois
L’Dor V’Dor: The RAC-TX Campaign Against Maternal Mortality formally launched on March 20th, 2023. The problem we seek to address is clear: 1 in 4 women of childbearing age in Texas are uninsured. That’s 1.4 million women without insurance.