Strengthening Congregations

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Digital Content to Enliven Your Passover 2021 Seder

the staff of the URJ and other Reform Movement partners

March 1, 2021

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.

Yom Kippur

New & Updated Resources: Preparing for the High Holidays in Challenging Times

Cantor Rosalie Will

Rabbi Leora Kaye

July 20, 2020

Partner organizations of the Reform Movement are offering the best collaborative thinking and the most comprehensive resources to guide your visioning and planning.

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Strengthening Congregations

How Synagogues Can Combat the Toxic Polarization Threatening American Democracy

Rabbi Michael G. Holzman

July 6, 2021

Our fears of toxicity and the preventative tactics they induce testify to how much surrounding American cultural norms have seeped into our institutions.

Strengthening Congregations

Pew & The Spiritual Significance of Numbers

Yolanda Savage-Narva

June 14, 2021

I want to talk briefly about a significant number from the Pew report, but first I want to invite you to go on a short journey with me as I create the framing around numbers and their significance by simply asking a question: What exactly is a number?

Strengthening Congregations

It’s Pew Time. Is it also Phew Time?

Amy Asin

June 14, 2021

The unveiling of the Pew Study of Jewish Americans is a moment of both trepidation and excitement for those of us who are working in the Jewish community – paid or volunteer