Repairing the World at Biennial: Thursday Tikkun Olam Highlights
Biennial started with a bang on Wednesday, including a jam-packed evening plenary featuring such incredible speakers as Michael Douglas and Nick Kristof.
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.
Video: Vice President Joe Biden’s Message to Reform Jews
“You didn’t just lobby me, you educated me,” Vice President Joe Biden told more than 5,000 Jewish leaders gathered in Orlando, FL, for the Union for Reform Judaism’s Biennial convention
Reform Movement Decries Continued Violence in Tel Aviv and West Bank
Contact: Max Rosenblum or Jacob Kraus
202.387.2800 | news@rac.org
Reform Movement Condemns Shooting at Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs
Contact: Max Rosenblum or Tracy Wolf
202.387.2800 | news@rac.org
What I Learned from a Case of URJ Biennial FOMO
Not everyone I know attended the URJ Biennial, but it felt that way. I ran into people from every school, youth program, and synagogue I’ve ever worked with or attended.
Women's Health
Adopted at the 62nd General Assembly
October, 1993
San Francisco, CA
Background
Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign
The recently issued report of the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders declares as its basic conclusion: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal".
Handgun Control
An examination of the latest statistics on murder (1973) leads us to several important conclusions. The fact that 25,000 people were killed by guns that year in the United States demands that we take immediate and effective action.
Crime
Board of Trustees
May 1968
New York, New York