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How to Use the URJ Reflection Tool

Rabbi Esther L. Lederman

Rabbi Leora Kaye

We recently introduced the URJ Reflection Project, a tool for the High Holidays that can be found at reflect.reformjudaism.org. Here, we share suggestions of how to use its many ideas with your congregation.

Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Jewish Perspective

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Rosh HaShanah has triggered a tidal wave of grief. That she left us at the start of the new year has brought to mind the Jewish belief that righteous souls die on Jewish holy days.

The late Honey and Rudi Scheidt sitting together at the 2016 Scheidt Seminar

Remembering Helen “Honey” Scheidt, Of Blessed Memory

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

This past Shabbat, the Reform Jewish Movement lost an extraordinary soul, Helen “Honey” Scheidt. Her beloved husband, Rudi E. Scheidt, Sr., z”l, died just five months before.

Headshots of Danielle Gold and Jesse Irizarry

JewV’Nation Fellowship Focus: Danielle Gold and Jesse Irizarry

Toby Singer

Danielle and Jesse created focused young adult Jewish programming on the neighborhood level, calling it the Queens Jewish Project (QJP).

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Mishkan HaLev: Trying Out the New Selichot Service

Rabbi Stacy Offner

Selichot is the overture for our High Holidays, a chance to focus on meaning, tradition, faith, and striving to reach that spot in the heart where no one else can go.

Why We Became a Brit Olam Congregation

Recently, the board of my congregation unanimously passed the Brit Olam, committing to act powerfully and together to bring upon the world we want.

Purim Together participants -- a student and a senior -- together

Focus on Community: An Award-Winning Strategy for Two Congregations

Toby Singer

In an increasingly mobile society, families often are separated by many miles. Far from family support, we seek community elsewhere, including in our Jewish institutions.

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URJ Camp Newman Announces Summer 2018 Plans: 70 Years of Jewish Camping Continues!

Ruben Arquilevich & Rabbi Erin Mason

This coming summer, the Camp Newman community will gather at California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) on the shores of the San Francisco Bay in Vallejo.

After Wildfire Severely Damages Camp’s Home, URJ Camp Newman Announces Summer 2018 Plans

Contacts:

Alaina Yoakum, AYoakum@urj.org, 415-991-0364

Lauren Theodore, LTheodore@urj.org, 212-650-4154

Outraged Reform Jewish Leaders to Israeli PM: Denounce Degrading Body Searches of Female Rabbinic Students at Kotel

Senior leadership of the Reform Movement, the largest movement in Jewish life, sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to unnecessary and demeaning body searches imposed on female rabbinic students at the Western Wall in Jerusalem:

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,

We are writing to express our outrage and dismay about the humiliation of a cohort of Reform rabbinic students, all of whom are the future leadership of the Jewish people, at the entrance to the Kotel on August 23^rd, Rosh Hodesh Elul.

Two of our female rabbinic students, who are spending their first year of studies in Israel, were stopped at the entrance to the Kotel. After they passed through a metal detector (which clearly indicated that they were not posing any security threat), they were asked to lift their skirts and shirts in a demeaning way, an action that completely defied the decisions the Supreme Court reached on this matter.