We will be meeting for six 90-minute training sessions, which will enable clergy to acknowledge their positional power and use their moral voices to address oppression inside and outside of our Jewish communities.
For those interested in participating in the additional optional processing sessions:
We also provide an additional 3 one-hour sessions where participants will be placed into a small group of clergy with whom they will meet to process and reflect on learnings, work through challenges within their own communities, etc. Processing sessions will include an experienced coach to help guide discussions and provide prompts.
- Session 1: Tuesday, 12/20, 12-1:30 PM ET
- Session 2: Tuesday, 1/3, 12-1:30 PM ET
- Optional Processing Session: Thursday 1/12, 12-1 PM ET
- Optional Processing Session: Friday 1/13, 12-1 PM ET
- Session 3: Tuesday, 1/24, 12-1:30 PM ET
- Session 4: Tuesday, 1/31, 12-1:30 PM ET
- Optional Processing Session: Thursday 2/9, 12-1 PM ET
- Session 5: Tuesday, 2/14, 12-1:30 PM ET
- Session 6: Thursday, 3/2, 12-1:30 PM ET
The Union for Reform Judaism follows the Central Conference of American Rabbis' and American Conference of Cantors' standards in determining usage of the titles rabbi and/or cantor in the context of our Movement-wide conferences, programs, publications, and social media platforms. Please see this webpage to determine your eligibility.
Each of the six sessions in the series (Using Our Moral Voices to Address Oppression Inside & Outside of Our Jewish Communities) builds upon the last, so it important that those who commit to participating in the program attend all six sessions.
For those interested in participating in the additional optional processing sessions:
We also provide an additional three one-hour sessions where participants will be placed into a small group of clergy with whom they will meet to process and reflect on learnings, work through challenges within their own communities, etc. These discussions will include an experienced coach to help guide discussions and provide prompts. We strongly encourage you to attend as many optional processing sessions as you can!
This space is for white clergy and will serve as a white antiracist affinity space. A white antiracist affinity space is a space where white people can process their emotions and deepen their understanding around race and racism, without burdening or causing additional harm to People of Color (POC).
A note to our esteemed Clergy of Color: the URJ hosts regular JOC/POC affinity spaces. These spaces serve as safe and brave communities for JOCs to come together and be restored, enriched, and affirmed. Please see future opportunities.
This year's Rabbi Balfour Brickner Clergy Cohort seems very different from prior years, why is that?
We recognize that the Rabbi Balfour Brickner Fellowship is an ever-evolving program and may differ in structure from the previous years (and in future years). We strive to continuously meet the changing needs of our clergy and our community through practical and relevant programming. This program continues to be partially funded by the Rabbi Balfour Brickner Clergy Fund.
Although this series will overlap with content from REDI 101 and the Whiteness Series, the content of this iteration will be specific to a white clergy audience, so we invite you to attend again, as often times we pick-up new and useful information that may not have been noticed and/or included in the previous trainings. If you attended the Moral Voice series this past spring, the content will largely be the same, however with some additional sessions around organizing and implementing the work later in the series. Please feel free to sign up again if you wish - we would love to have you join us for the second time around!
Absolutely! You can REGISTER HERE.
For questions about this series (Using Our Moral Voices to Address Oppression Inside & Outside of Our Jewish Communities), please contact Aliza Greenberg at agreenberg@urj.org.