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.
URJ Grants Support Innovative Outreach Programs
URJ President on United Methodist Church Rejecting BDS
This week’s clear decision by the United Methodist Church rejecting the efforts of those who misguidedly sought to draw the Church into the boycott, divestment, sanctions campaign to delegitimize Israel is a welcome step in support of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
URJ Launches JewV’Nation Fellowship: An Interfaith Outreach Incubator for Emerging Jewish Leaders
Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) today launched the JewV’Nation Fellowship, an innovative year-long project incubator and leadership development program supporting emerging Jewish leaders and creative interfaith outreach initiatives. The program, which will begin in early 2017, is supported in part with a Jewish Funders Network grant from Avenues to Jewish Engagement for Intermarried Couples and their Families, in honor of 2015 Genesis Prize Laureate Michael Douglas.
The JewV’Nation (pronounced “juvination”) Fellowship program will be led by April Baskin, URJ’s Vice President of Audacious Hospitality, and seeks to engage a new generation of leadership by valuing the perspectives and insights of the younger members of the community and supporting them with resources and strategies to bring their best ideas to life. The fellows themselves will define and create exciting and contemporarily relevant Jewish programming.
Jewish Leader Appaulds U.S. Decision to End Durban Conference Participation
Saperstein: "We hope that at some point in the near future, a serious international effort will be made to address the plight of those who suffer discrimination."
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Reform Movement Welcomes President's Proposed Investment in Vital Programs
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DC Voting Bill "A Basic Issue of Fairness and Justice"
Pelavin: "Residents of Washington, D.C. fulfill all of the responsibilities of citizenship but are denied the most basic right to Congressional representation."
North Dakota 'Personhood' Bill an Affront to Reproductive Rights
Pelavin & Rabishaw: "The passage of this troubling bill reminds us to be ever watchful of the continued battles that must be fought and won before reproductive justice can be fully realized in our nation."
Reform Jewish Teens Package 40,000 Kosher Meals for New York Food Bank
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb.
Reform Jewish Rabbi Travels to Kenya to Distribute Anti-Malaria Bed Nets
More than 128,000 insecticide-treated bed nets delivered to four Kenyan refugee camps before rainy season
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