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.

Marketing & Communications

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.

Jewish Values

Pandemic Passover, Take Two: The Long Journey through the Wilderness

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

March 2, 2021

Last Passover began the urgent quest to reinvent much of Jewish life, highlighting that some of the ways we “do” Judaism needed to be updated. This year has been a powerful catalyst to shifts in how we perform our holy work.

Doctor vaccinating a young woman in the arm while both wear masks

Congregational Life

Vaccinating the Most Vulnerable Requires Proactive Congregational Effort

Rabbi Fred Guttman

Robert Wineburg

February 18, 2021

Judaism’s foremost physician made clear that providing healthcare to the community is fundamentally connected to the spiritual and moral health of society. Nine centuries later, with COVID-19 raging all around us, the urgent relevance of the Rambam’s words could not be clearer.

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COVID-19

6 Things You Should be Doing to Improve Your Congregation’s Security

Amy Asin

February 15, 2021

Tthere are critical tasks to be done to ensure congregational safety and security both now and as we reopen. The results of the URJ’s synagogue security survey points to six things you should be doing to make sure you're prepared.