A Gift of Life Donor Tells Her Story
Happy New Year! Check out the Reform Movement's Top 18 Stories of 2017
What a year it’s been. With 2018 fast-approaching, we’ve rounded up the top 18 Reform Movement stories of 2017, listed below in somewhat chronological order.
Mendel Hirt’s Diary: A Canadian Jewish Tale
The Mom of a Trans Child Wrote a Beautiful New Rosh HaShanah Book
Women of Reform Judaism Increase Funds for Girls' Scholarships to Reform Jewish Sci-Tech Camp
New York, NY, March 11, 2015 -- Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) has doubled its scholarship fund from its YES (Youth, Education, & Special Projects) Fund to send more girls to the URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy, given the overwhelming success of WRJ's targeted outreach during last summer's inaug
On 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the RAC Talks Civil Rights
The Melodies of the Four Questions: Mah Nishtanah Tunes for Passover
3 Previously Frowned-Upon Behaviors to Embrace During the High Holidays at Home
A Taxing Challenge
Last week, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced a tax credit proposal designed to help working families by relieving some of their federal tax responsibilities. Senators Durbin and Brown introduced the Working Families Tax Relief Act. This would extend and expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) as well as the Child Tax Credit (CTC), making the 2009 expansions of the tax credits permanent. Without extending the EITC and CTC to 2017, 50 million Americans could lose part or all of their EITC or CTC refunds.