How to Create Meaningful Mitzvot Opportunities for B'nai Mitzvah
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, PA, began its journey in the pilot cohort of the URJ’s B’nai Mitzvah Revolution by asking our eighth grade families one question: What could we have done to better prepare your family for your child’s bar or bat mitzvah?
Slaughter Does Not Honor Anyone: Remembering that Fateful Day in Pittsburgh
As I was leading Torah study at our synagogue nearly a year ago, an evil man murdered my friends and co-religionists because to him, Jews are strangers and dangerous.
From Political Scientist to Reform Seminary President
We recently sat down with Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., the new president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, to ask him about the path that led to this role.
The Torah That Made History
It finally happened.
After a 26-year struggle, Women of the Wall read from a full size Torah scroll in the women's section of the Kotel.
Mendel Hirt’s Diary: A Canadian Jewish Tale
What Ancient Tents of the Israelites Teach us About Modern Privacy Issues
“They Sat in the Back”: A Poem for Those Killed in Pittsburgh
This poem, written by a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, commemorates the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in October 2018.