High Holidays 2020/5781: Tools to Make Them Meaningful
As we approach the most unusual High Holidays in recent memory, ReformJudaism.org is here to help you find ways to observe, celebrate or commemorate the holiday season that work best for you. Here are some helpful tips.
Teach (and Practice) a New Jewish Value Each Night of Hanukkah
Taking Care of One Another is a Core Jewish Value
If our communal life is not available for all who want to participate, we are failing to fulfill a basic mitzvah (commandment) – and we’re also missing out on an essential part of our sacred community.
How to Find Your Voice – and Why it Matters
Within our congregations are individuals who live with disabilities, as well as family members and friends and people who support people with disabilities. As Jewish leaders, we simply cannot ignore a fifth of our community or treat them as marginal members.
Our Stories, Ourselves
"One begins with shame and concludes with glory" (Mishnah P'sachim 10:4).This mishnah describes the narrative arc of the Passover seder: from sorrow to praise, mourning to celebration, slavery to freedom.
Get Out and Vote in 2016
The Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses earlier this month marked the official start of the 2016 election cycle. Over the coming months, millions of Americans will take to the polls to exercise their constitutional right to determine who represents them at all levels of government.
Joseph and Potiphar: The Named, the Neutered, and the Neutralized
When we last encountered our hero Joseph, he had been sold to traders from the pit his brothers threw him in, had been brought to Egypt as a slave, and had suffered greatly due to his supposedly salacious interactions with Potiphar's wife, all to end up moldering in an Egyptian jail.
JDAIM Inspires Action and Commitment to Inclusion
I admit that I get quite a thrill when I hear about all of the events and programs that are scheduled in North America during Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM)