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Reform Movement Appaulds Implementation of Mental Health Parity Laws
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UAHC President Outraged at Car Bombing Attack in Northern Israel
(New York, NY, June 5, 2002) - Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, president of the Reform Movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations, expressed his outrage, revulsion, and disappointment today after learning of the car bomb that was detonated in northern Israel Wednesday morning.
Learning from Dinah
As a woman who looks to the Torah for guidance and for lessons, I very often struggle with the portrayal of women in our Biblical texts.
My History with the Family of Lee Harvey Oswald's Jewish Killer
We were sharing a pastrami sandwich and pickles at the Los Angeles landmark Canter’s Deli. I was 24. She was nearly 50 years older, with a piercing voice as loud as her flaming red wig.
A Social Justice Gift Guide for Hanukkah
Resilience of the Soul Breaks Ground in Adolescent Mental Health
SAN DIEGO, CA—To help families and congregations offer teens a safe place to mature into adulthood, the Union’s Department of Jewish Family Concerns has published Resilience of the Soul – Developing Emotional and Spiritual Resilience in Adolescents and Their Families, A Resourc
Observing Transgender Day of Remembrance in the Jewish Community
Book Excerpt: Terrorism Pays
Why I’m Going to Israel for Women of the Wall
I am packing for Israel, after a long time away. Like nearly all Reform rabbis, I spent my first year of the rabbinical program in Jerusalem, learning firsthand what life is like in the Jewish state: beautiful, complicated, ordinary, and above all else, profoundly Jewish.