How We’ve Expanded the Brit Olam - and How You Can Get Involved
We;ve renewed and relaunched the Brit Olam with multiple entry points for communities to advance justice at the local, state, provincial, and federal levels, and to ground this work in Jewish text and tradition.
Reform Movement Responds to Election Results
The Reform Movement Condemns Brutal Attack at Jerusalem Synagogue
Commemorating Transgender Day of Remembrance 2014
Today, we remember:
Brittany Stergis, shot dead in her car in Cleveland, OH, on December 5, 2013.
Kanday Hall, murdered and found in a field, in Baltimore, MD, on June 3, 2014.
Action Still Needed for Unaccompanied Minors
Today We Remember: Commemorating Transgender Day of Remembrance 2014
Reform Movement Condemns Brutal Attack at Jerusalem Synagogue
November 18, 2014, New York, NY -- In response to the brutal attack that occurred at Bnei Torah Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Har Nof, Jerusalem, URJ President Rabbi Rick Jacobs stated:
The Reluctant Warrior
Because we know how it ends, we may not feel the suspense as Parashat Vayishlach opens. Jacob prepares to return home and confront his estranged brother, Esau, after 20 years apart. They had not parted on good terms.