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Forms and Flyers
92nd Street YThis is the Time to Celebrate
I am looking forward to this coming weekend. Why? Because we get to let Jamie Gibson and our community know how much we treasure Jamie (Continue Reading »)
Category: Presidential Address
A New Leader for the Movement and His and Our Challenges
Rabbi Rick Jacobs has now been installed as President of the Union for Reform Judaism. He and we clearly face challenges. As stated in an article (Continue Reading »)
A Quick Pitch for Shavuot
Somehow in the Reform movement many of us have lost sight of Shavuot and its significance. In case you lost track, Shavuot starts tomorrow (Saturday) (Continue Reading »)
The Challenge of Facebook
Here is an intriguing article, brought to my attention today by Frank Schwarz, from the JTA, called Facebook IPO: Good for Jews?. It raises interesting (Continue Reading »)
The Nones Can Be Our Hope
I read an interesting Op-Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times entitled “Letting doubters in the door” by Philip Clayton, the dean of Claremont School (Continue Reading »)
A Challenge
Many of us believe that the world is changing at an ever faster pace, although my grandfather who traveled in a covered wagon from Ohio (Continue Reading »)
Our Commitment to Collaboration
I am writing in response to the article in the January 26th issue of The Jewish Chronicle entitled “Rodef Shalom Ponders Tough Issues at Town (Continue Reading »)
Join the Conversation
Now I ask you to join the conversation. After I returned from the URJ Biennial I wrote a blog piece referring to several things we (Continue Reading »)
Energized and Thoughtful
I just got back from the Union for Judaism’s Biennial in Washington, D.C. The Biennial is the once every two year meeting of the congregations (Continue Reading »)
Learning from Isaac’s Wells
This past week we read the Torah portion Toldot. The parsha starts by saying that “[t]his is the story [or line] of Isaac.” But Isaac (Continue Reading »)
