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A man and woman exchanging a Hanukkah gift in a bag patterned with colorful dreidels

Hanukkah: More Than Just Presents?

Katharine Nasielski

This weekend, we will gather together with family or friends (or, if you’re on the RAC staff, with 215 high school students at L’Taken) around the Chanukah lights, spin the dreidel, eat latkes and sufganyot and engage in the great “applesauce or sour cream” debate.

Ner Shel Tzedakah

Families donate gifts or money to charitable organizations instead of exchanging gifts on the sixth night of Chanukah.

Rise up Maccabean Style for Rights of the Disabled

Rabbi Lynne Landsberg

Raechel Banks

The sages of the Talmud had a debate about how we are to light the Chanukah menorah: Should we begin with eight candles and remove one each night, or begin with one and add through the holiday?

All I Want for Christmas is a Christmas Tree

Kate Bigam Kaput

I am, and have always been, Jewish, but I was raised in a household with a father who was secularly Christian. We “celebrated” Christmas and Easter, but never went to church. We put up a tree but did not speak of Jesus. We colored eggs but did not discuss resurrections.

Be a Lamplighter: A Reflection on Newtown and Darkness

Rabbi Sari Laufer

I have a bunch of blog posts brewing in my head, but felt like I couldn't write anything until I wrote about Newtown. But, what could I say? What can I say?

The Friendship House

A congregation created three comprehensive projects for the Friendship House, a homeless shelter for abused women, children at risk, migrant workers, and the Sunrise Community, an agency for developmentally disabled adults.

New Study Guides, Books, and Musical Resources Among Reform Movement Offerings for the High Holy Days

A wealth of books, music, and on-line articles are now available to help families through the flurry of getting ready for the High Holy Days season.

S.O.S. Save Our Soldiers

Raised awareness to the plight of the three Israeli soldiers captured in the 2006 Lebanon War.

Foster Care Outreach

Pairing congregants with foster children to provide gifts, arrange special events and help subsidize costs for foster parents in need.

Rosh HaShanah flatlay with honey and pomegranates and apples

5780: Our Annual Rosh HaShanah Sermon Roundup

Mark J. Pelavin

Typically, at some point in my work on this project, my wife will lean over my shoulder and ask me, in her own style, “So. How are the Jews this year?” Some years that is a difficult question to answer. This year the answer is clear: The Jews are afraid.