URJ Receives $5 Million Gift From Heller Family To Enhance Transformational NFTY-EIE High School in Israel Program
New York, NY, October 19, 2016 – The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) announced today that the Heller family of Scotch Plains, NJ, has made an endowment gift of $5 million to fund the NFTY-EIE High School in Israel Program, which is being renamed URJ Heller High: Isaac and Helaine Heller EIE High School in Israel. This is the largest gift in EIE history, and the URJ’s largest non-capital gift.
Nation's Rabbis Call on Congress to Pass Immigration Reform Now
Rabbis: From Abraham's journey to Canaan, to our Exodus from Egypt, to today, we are a people that has over millennia continuously been expelled, been rejected, been freed, and been welcomed.
Central Conference of American Rabbis Statement on Syria
September 12, 2013 - The Central Conference of American Rabbis has issued the following statement concerning Syria. The Union for Reform Judaism board has not made a decision on the use of force, but supports all diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.