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Domestic Violence "De-criminalized" During Domestic Violence Awareness Month

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a time for commemorating the victims of domestic violence and educating ourselves and others about this heinous, and often "taboo," topic.

Too Fast, Too Furious?

Beginning in fall 2009, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives initiated Operation Fast and Furious.

Adult hands cupping a childs hands holding a red plastic heart atop a blue wooden table

13 Jewish Stories about Moms for Mother’s Day

This Mother’s Day, we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite stories about moms to share with you. We hope you’ll read them, enjoy them, relate to them, comment on them, and maybe share stories of your own mothers. Happy Mother’s Day!

Teenagers walking down railroad tracks while visiting a concentration camp

Ghetto: A Poem

Samantha (Sami) Silk

the path that we now follow / is the Exodus our ancestors never chose / flooding with pain they died not to swallow / the past spills into the river and flows

Reform Movement Welcomes Gilad Shalit Home

October 18, 2011

Reform Leaders: "Gilad's homecoming demonstrates the preciousness with which Israel treats the life of each and every IDF soldier."

Contact: Annette Powers
212-650-4154 apowers@urj.org

Looking Forward: Remaining Challenges, Emerging Opportunities

Katharine Nasielski

Rabbi David Saperstein spoke today at a Department of Justice and George Washington University Law School conference titled "Confronting Discrimination in the Post-9/11 Era: Challenges and O

Important Message on Ethics Accountability

Jennifer Brodkey Kaufman

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

In recent weeks, there have been several public reports of leaders in our Reform Jewish Movement who have engaged in abuse, misconduct, and sexual assault. The pain endured by the victims is heartbreaking. We hope the reports of these brave victims will empower others who have suffered in silence to come forward so that there can be both accountability and healing. We commit without hesitation that the Union for Reform Judaism (the URJ) will address all reports of misconduct appropriately and transparently, centering the survivors as we move forward.

This Sukkot, Support Environmental Protections from Border to Border

Susan Paykin

Question: On Sukkot, we remember our ancestors' struggles to balance their lives with the surrounding environment in order to produce a bountiful harvest each year. But most of us no longer grow our own food or live at the mercy of natural phenomena in the same ways.

Reform Jewish Leader Celebrates the American Families Plan

April 29, 2021

"After months of extreme hardship caused by the pandemic and years of underinvestment, we welcome the significant investments proposed in the American Families Plan to improve access to education, health care, and economic security for workers and families across the United States."

Man carrying sign that says - George Floyds Life Mattered

For George Floyd’s Family

After a moment of joy and relief at the guilty verdicts in the murder of George Floyd, my overwhelming emotion is sorrow in my heart for a daughter without her father and a brother without his brother. This is a prayer for justice and healing. My anger and indignation were already expressed in “Strangled by Police: Psalm of Protest 17” which is added here to create a two-prayer liturgy. Both pieces refer to Amos 5:24, envisioning a time when justice will flow as water.