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RAC Blog: Communities Taking Hold of Youth Engagement
To celebrate Shavuot last week I joined with friends at a nearby community-wide tikkun leil Shavuot (an all night Torah study) hosted by our congregation, Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn. As in so many communities, it was a lively scene as pe...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 9:48am -07:00T (370 words)
 
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RAC Blog: A Long Night of Advocacy: The Dawn of Equality in Rhode Island
On May 2, Rhode Island’s governor signed a marriage equality bill, making it the tenth state to take this important step. Shortly afterwards, Delaware and Minnesota also passed marriage bills, making this a remarkable spring of advancement t...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:48am -07:00T (574 words)
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RAC Blog: Over 500 Rabbis and Cantors Send Letter to the Boy Scouts of America
All eyes are on Grapevine, Texas today as the Boy Scouts of America begins the annual meeting of its National Council. Earlier this year the Boy Scouts of America announced that it would postpone a reconsideration of its policy prohibiting gay sco...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:48am -07:00T (437 words)
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RAC Blog: Hectic Times, in the Very Best Way
Despite the fact that summer, with its hopefully slower pace, is just around the corner, the last few weeks have been packed!
At the end of April, I joined 117 congregational presidents who had gathered in Atlanta for the annual Scheidt Seminar, t...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:03am -07:00T (296 words)
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RAC Blog: Two Friends, Two Synagogues, One Jewish Community
by Michele Gelman and Sheila Gold
Michele Gelman is a native of New Orleans. By comparison, Sheila Gold is a relative “newcomer,” having been actively involved with her congregation for only 23 years. Despite this difference, these two wom...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:48pm -07:00T (820 words)
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RAC Blog: Reform Movement Collecting Donations for Oklahoma Tornado Victims
The Union for Reform Judaism is accepting donations in the wake of the deadly tornado in Oklahoma. We’re working closely with our congregations in the affected region to assure the safety of their congregants, their neighbors, their structur...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 10:33am -07:00T (177 words)
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RAC Blog: Internet Round-Up: The Best Jewish Stories on the Web
Here are just a few of the recent stories from across the webosphere that speak directly to (and about) Reform Jews. What Jewish stories have you been reading recently? Leave a comment and let us know!
“Modern-Day Rabbi Must Be CEO, Teacher...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 12:48am -07:00T (261 words)
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RAC Blog: Un’taneh Tokef: The Awesome Sanctity of This Day
By Rabbi Richard Sarason
In the traditional liturgy, the special character of each holiday is particularly conveyed by the piyyutim (hymns, liturgical poems) that are recited or chanted on that day. Most of these piyyutim have been omitted in Reform l...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 2:18am -07:00T (1132 words)
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RAC Blog: Internet Round-Up: The Best Jewish Stories on the Web
Here are just a few of the recent stories from across the webosphere that speak directly to (and about) Reform Jews. What Jewish stories have you been reading recently? Leave a comment and let us know!
“His Father’s Murder Drives a Ra...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 7:33am -07:00T (437 words)
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RAC Blog: Things I Love About B’nai Mitzvah
by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
I love the excited buzz in the synagogue before Shabbat morning services when one of our kids is going to be called to the Torah as b’nai mitzvah.
I love the eager, nervous energy I feel emanating from the family....
Dateline: 2013-05-07 6:48am -07:00T (552 words)
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RAC Blog: Yom Huledet Sameach, WRJ!
Throughout its history, Women of Reform Judaism has supported the next generation of the Reform Movement. In celebration of WRJ’s Centennial and the significant role that WRJ has played in the life of NFTY, the current National Board members and...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 12:48pm -07:00T (1066 words)
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RAC Blog: Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson on Women of the Wall
Still not clear on the details of the ongoing dispute regarding women’s prayer at the Western Wall in Israel? Been following along so closely that you want to know even more about it? Last week, Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson, director of the Women...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 12:48pm -07:00T (141 words)
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RAC Blog: Crane Lake Camp Helps Out in Sandy Relief
by Ryan Fishoff
Camp is not just what happens inside the red gates for 2 months during the summer. It is a community, both physically and spiritually, that exists 365 days of the year. This was never more apparent than this past fall in the afterm...
Dateline: 2013-04-29 1:04pm -07:00T (255 words)
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RAC Blog: Malaria in D.C.?
Last week, I attended a Malaria 101 briefing on Capitol Hill here in Washington, D.C. We heard from a panel of experts from the President’s Malaria Initiative, the Peace Corps, and the Center for Disease Control, all of whom are embedded in the fight to...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 2:04pm -07:00T (437 words)
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RAC Blog: Jerusalem District Court Rules on Women of the Wall
Leaders of the Reform Movement issued a statement today about a recent ruling from the Jerusalem District Court that determined that recent detention of Women of the Wall members for their activities at the Western Wall was unjustified and for den...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 2:04pm -07:00T (314 words)
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