Biden at Biennial: What did the Vice President Say?
Speaking to the 5,000 attendees at the URJ Biennial in Orlando on Saturday, November 7, Vice President Joe Biden offered sincere words on many issues of importance to our Movement.
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I do not I remember where I was when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated -- I was only two years old at the time. And yet, many moments in my life have compelled me to reckon with his legacy. I lived in Jerusalem in 2000 and 2001, as the
Get Engaged (with Israel) at Biennial
With everything happening in the Middle East, now is a critical time to support, learn about, struggle with and connect to Israel. The current wave of violence looks unlikely to subside, representatives of our Movement have just returned from the World Zionist
Reflections from the World Zionist Congress
Shalom from Jerusalem, where I am one of the 56 delegates representing ARZA at this week’s World Zionist Congress, which just concluded on Thursday.
The World Zionist Congress Begins This Week – and the Reform Movement is There!
This post originally appeared on RJ.org.
I am sure that over the past couple of weeks you have watched the news coming out of Israel with grave concern.
The Ongoing Escalation in Israel: Resources for Making Sense of it All
Since the end September, my Facebook timeline, Twitter feed, and email inbox have been filled with a steady stream of increasingly fearful and disheartening news coming from Israel.
Religious Pluralism in Israel: Small Steps on a Long Journey
In the spring of 2014, while studying in Haifa, I traveled down to Jerusalem to meet up with my mother and other members of our congregation who were visiting Israel.
Iran Deal Inches towards Adoption and Implementation
Now that the September 17 deadline for congressional action on the Iran Nuclear Deal has passed, many are wondering what will come next. Will Iran receive immediate sanctions relief? Who is supposed to make sure they do not violate the terms of the deal?
For the Negev’s Bedouin Communities, Signs of Hope and Fear
Human rights and Bedouin advocates are breathing a sigh of relief this week, now that the elementary school in the Bedouin village of Al-Sayyid has been connected to the power grid, four decades after it was built. The four other schools in the village will be hooked up to the power grid by the time school starts in September. This movement comes in the wake of a petition to Israel’s High Court of Justice, which convinced the Israel Electric Corporation to connect these schools to the power grid.
In memory of Shira Banki
The air stood still in Jerusalem’s Zion Square last night.
More than a thousand teens and young adults gathered there to attend a memorial service organized by the Jerusalem Open House. They came to grieve the loss of Shira Banki, the 16-year old girl who died yesterday afternoon days after being stabbed by an ultra-Orthodox man at last Thursday’s Jerusalem LGBTQ Pride March.
