Avi Holzman, right, and two friends in Israel during the URJ’s Heller High program in Israel.

This past spring, I was fortunate enough to spend four months in Israel on the URJ’s Heller High program.

In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, the religious life of the Uyghur Muslim community has been almost completely destroyed.  Between one and three million Uyghur Muslims have been arrested or detained because of their religion, and gov

At a women’s retreat sponsored by Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA, Cory Amron, attorney and president of Women Lawyers On Guard, and Beth Singer, principal of Beth Singer Design, designed a potent social action experience for attendees.

The U.S. 2018 Midterm Elections were historic in many ways.

We saw more women, minority, and Jewish candidates than ever before run for office, and we can now celebrate the diversity of our newly elected Congress. This 116^th Congress will include more

 
The writer and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel once said that the greatest gift God gave humans was not the ability to begin, but the ability to begin again. Every religion teaches that forgiveness and redemption are possible, and the Jewish tradition is no

We are a little less than a month away from the 2018 midterm election in the United States, and we, as Reform Jews, must not forget the power of our vote. Our vote allows us to exercise our voices and our values as the U.S.

This post is adapted from Congregation Beth Am's monthly newsletter.

Can you be a good Jew without caring about social justice? Most of us would see that as a contradiction in terms. The 2013 Pew study found that 56% of American Jews called “working for

This post is adapted from Rabbi Meyer's Rosh HaShanah 5779 morning sermon. 

For our Israelite ancestors, the most important festival of the year was Sukkot, and the most widely practiced ritual was the bringing of the first fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem

Every year, Jews celebrate the festival of Sukkot to mark the fall harvest season and commemorate the conclusion of the Israelites’ forty-year journey through the desert after leaving Egypt.