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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Jewish Camp and Our God Journeys
by Ruben Arquilevich
“Camp Newman helps us feel closer to God”. This is how I opened my dialogue with our 2013 leadership staff at our annual Spring retreat. You could have imagined the response. Even some of our Rabbinic students felt u...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:21am -07:00T (712 words)
 
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: The Blessing of a Special Guest at Congregation Emet VeShalom
by Sharon Mann
Editor’s Note: This post is the first of two about Congregation Emet VeShalom. The complementary post will appear tomorrow.
Reform Judaism and religious pluralism, which are taken for granted in the United States, are not...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:21am -07:00T (523 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Is There Only One Set of Religious Values?
For a long time the common refrain has been that “religious values” meant “conservative or traditional.” With the decline of the so-called Religious Right the monopoly on terms like “Values Voters” or descriptions that ...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 10:52am -07:00T (88 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: The Music of the Shofar Service
By Cantor Hayley Kobilinsky
Tekiah! Teruah! Shevarim! Tekiah Gedolah!
If these words do not evoke within you a sense of excitement that is at the core of the High Holy Days, then surely the unmistakable blast of the shofar, the ram’s horn, will. I can...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 2:37am -07:00T (957 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: A Letter to my Daughter for Her First NFTY Year
By Allison K.
Allison recently wrote this letter to her daughter, Logan. Allison’s daughter is a freshman in NFTY-TOR, the same region she grew up in over 25 years ago.
Dear Logan,
After dropping you off for your Freshman Spring Kallah, I ...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 11:37am -07:00T (397 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Expanding Camp Opportunities for Kids with Special Needs
The Foundation for Jewish Camp released preliminary findings last week from their recent research study Jewish Camp for Children with Disabilities and Special Needs, which maps current, potential, and desired camp program opportunities for children with d...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 11:37am -07:00T (535 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Please, Please, Have This Vital Conversation
I do not know of any colleague who has not, at one time or another, sat with a family as a loved one neared the end of life. It can be a heart-wrenching, spiritual, troublesome, anxious and fulfilling encounter — all at the same time. Sadly, too...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 6:21am -07:00T (465 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: What’s New with the Campaign for Youth Engagement?
I just returned from two weeks in Israel focusing on the intersection of Israel and youth engagement… and eating lots of delicious hummus! A dynamic connection to Israel is a critical strategy in all our youth engagement work.
One of the ke...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 1:06pm -07:00T (479 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: We’re Offering Grants for Congregations to Host Taste of Judaism™ Classes
Is your congregation interested in offering classes on “Judaism 101″? The Union for Reform Judaism is offering grants to help congregations offer Taste of Judaism™, a free, three-session class for beginners – Jewish or not &nda...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 9:52am -07:00T (279 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Turn Meaningful Reflection into Positive Action: A Look Back at Jewish Disability Awareness Month
It’s May. Can you believe it? Every year it seems to sneak up on me. But here it is.
Most synagogues and Jewish professionals are at the point in the year that I typically call the “race to the finish line.” We are busy completing our progra...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 8:52am -07:00T (346 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Time to Replace Programmatic Model of Jewish Affiliation
by Ron Wolfson
It’s that time of year, when Jewish institutions pull out their 2013-14 calendars and fill them with events. Many of the programs are very good, with clever names and slick marketing: Jews and Brews for young Federation leader...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 1:21pm -07:00T (967 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: The New Reform Machzor and the Shofar Service
By Rabbi Edwin Goldberg
Part Two: Chevruta (Intense Text Study) With A Thousand People
Last week I wrote about the decision of the Machzor editors to break the shofar service into three parts, with each part appearing in a different section of the servi...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 7:51am -07:00T (629 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Kol Yisrael: Engaging our Human Resources
by Micah Lapidus
Day School sustainability is about more than survival. It’s about maintaining a diverse, vibrant, dynamic, healthy, growing school community. The best way to achieve day school sustainability is by ensuring that we’re fully en...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 6:51am -07:00T (596 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Seeking Israeli-Indian and Jewish-Muslim Understanding through Dialogue
This week the RAC hosted Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, Chief Imam of the All India Imam Organization. The All India Imam Organization is the largest imam organization in the world, representing half a million religious leaders and over two hundred milli...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 1:22pm -07:00T (281 words)
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RJ.org - News and Views of Reform Jews: Jewish American Heritage Month: A Time to Preserve Your Congregation’s Heritage
March is Jewish American Heritage Month, which is a great impetus to talk about congregational heritage preservation. These days, communities are rapidly changing and Jewish communities are no exceptions: Congregations that were once large and thr...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 6:51am -07:00T (474 words)
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