URJ Leadership Institute: Sessions for Leaders Before, During, and After Biennial
This fall, the URJ’s Leadership Institute is offering a series of three sessions about key concepts that we hope will inspire sacred action within congregations. Both virtually and in person at the URJ Biennial 2015, congregational lay and professional leaders have opportunities to study, engage, and converse with each other and with scholars who are well-versed in three topics
Children’s Initiative – Connecting to our Community; Bridges to Benefits
Which is Worse: Reform Jews or Atomic Bombs?
7 Ways to Celebrate Tu BiShvat – Even in the Winter
Prayers & Blessings
HEAL: Homelessness Ends At Leo Baeck
What Participation Looks Like – and What Comes Next
Repairing the World: The Legislative Assistant Experience
If someone told me as a high school senior that after graduating college, I’d find myself working in Washington, D.C. for the largest Jewish denomination in North America, I would have been skeptical. In the years following my Bar Mitzvah, I barely set foot in temple.
Repairing the World: What the Legislative Assistant Experience Means to Me
I am only 22, yet I’ve been empowered to represent the represent the Reform Jewish Movement at coalition meetings, and strategize responses to the administration’s cruel immigration and refugee policies.
Pineapple Tart Rugelach
Lauren shares her pineapple tart rugelach recipe, which represents the marriage of a Peranakan pineapple tart and a Jewish rugelach.