Teaching Children about Courage (Ometz Lev)
Teaching Children about Peace in the Home (Shalom Bayit)
Collective Responsibility, One for All and All for One
Nitzavim comes in the cycle of Torah readings just before Rosh HaShanah and is particularly appropriate for the High Holidays because it stresses the importance of repentance. The tone of the passage is at once both lofty and terrifying.
It begins with Moses' inspiring address to the entire people of Israel shortly before he is to die, "You stand this day (Atem nitzavim hayom), all of you, before the Eternal your God — you tribal heads, you elders, and you officials, all the men of Israel, you children, you women, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to water drawer" (Deuteronomy 29:9-10).
Advocating for Access Granted: Reproductive Health Services and the EACH Woman Act
The Hyde Amendment is about to turn 40, but this is not a happy birthday.
Preparing for the Days of Awe - Emerging Color Connections
Preparing for the Days of Awe Activity - Revealing Values
Preparing for the Days of Awe - Mirror of the Soul
Preparing for the Days of Awe - Journaling with Symbolic Objects
A Love of Judaism, From Uganda to Georgia
Ugandan native Shoshanna Nambi, 27, was one of a dozen Ugandan Jewish young adults who spent this summer working as counselors and specialists at Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) camps. In this interview she talks about that experience and what it’s like to grow up Jewish in Uganda.