URJ and Ramah Camps in First-Ever Program Partnership to Build Specialist Staff Training
Rabbi Rick Jacobs Named as 2012 GA Scholar-in-Residence
URJ President to Spend Night at Synagogue Homeless Shelter He Founded 30 Years Ago
Brooklyn, NY, January 14, 2014 – In 1983, when Rabbi Rick Jacobs was the rabbi at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue (BHS), he had a vision to start a shelter to address the growing problem of homelessness in New York City.
These Words Upon Our Heart, A Helpful Guide To Judaism and World Religions, Released by URJ Press
These words, which I command you today, shall be upon your heart. You shall teach them faithfully to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you are going about your way, when you lie down, and when you rise up .
Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Presbyterian Response to Meeting with Terrorist Group Hezbollah
Rabbis Yoffie and Menitoff: There can be no religious justification whatsoever for words that serve to encourage terror and justify terrorism… We hope and pray that you will exercise the moral leadership required at this moment and repudiate these depl
The Union for Reform Judaism Mourns the Passing of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, z "l
The Union for Reform Judaism Launches Interactive Hebrew Curriculum
September 6, 2012, New York, NY -- The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) announced today the launch of Mitkadem Digital-- an interactive, fully supported, online component of Mitkadem, a 5-year Hebrew curriculum for religious school students, which explores grammar, vocabu
URJ Founds New Specialty Jewish Summer Camp Dedicated to Science and Technology
September 14, 2012, New York, NY -- The Reform Movement announced this week the founding of the first Jewish specialty camp for science and technology.
Rosh HaShanah Worship Services: Haftarah Blessings
The blessing after the reading of haftarah always sanctifies the day on which it is read. Throughout most of the year, that day is Shabbat, but haftarahis also read on the High Holidays. On Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur the text changes from the familiar Shabbat text to refer to the holiday.
Yom Kippur Worship Services: Haftarah Blessings
The blessing after the reading of haftarah always sanctifies the day on which it is read. Throughout most of the year, that day is Shabbat, but haftarah is also read on the High Holidays.