URJ's Michelle Shapiro Abraham Receives Prestigious Covenant Foundation Award for Excellence in Jewish Education
June 3, 2015, New York, NY — The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) proudly announces that Michelle Shapiro Abraham is the recipient of a 2015 Covenant Award for her work creating change and driving impact in Jewish education.
Daryl Messinger Nominated to Serve as Chair of the Union for Reform Judaism's Board of Trustees
June 30, 2015, New York, NY—Daryl Messinger of Palo Alto, CA, has been nominated to serve as the next Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ).
URJ Leaders Welcome Election of Dr. Andrew Rehfeld as President of HUC-JIR
New York, NY; December 18, 2018 – The leaders of the Union for Reform Judaism today offered their enthusiastic support for the election of Dr. Andrew Rehfeld as the 13th president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Muck: A Novel
In this re-telling of the life of Jeremiah, the second major prophet in the Hebrew Bible, Dror Burstein, an Israeli poet and novelist who teaches literature at Tel Aviv and Hebrew universities, interweaves all aspects of the modern world, including cell phones, fax machines, computers, and high-speed transit with the ancient Jerusalem in which the First Temple dominates the horizon. T
Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs: Episodes from the Margins of Jewish History
In Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs: Episodes from the Margins of Jewish History, Pini Dunner provides a series of bizarre stories describing how some Jews crashed through conventional guardrails of staid Jewish tradition and sped forward onto aberrant lanes of false messiahs, forgers of Passover Haggadot, rabbis searching for subversive religious meanings of Hebrew amulets, and an 18th-century British lord who converted to Judaism.
Reform Jewish Movement Condemns Decision Striking Down the Affordable Care Act
Supreme Court Affirms Core Religious Freedom Protections
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Boy Scouts Should Lift Ban on Gay Scout Leaders, Affirm Transgender Inclusion
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