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By Ashira Konigsburg, Associate Director of Rabbinic Services, RA

Another year has gone by already? Perhaps it is because time seems to fly that we find ways to mark the new year. Both the Jewish and secular calendars have developed...

By Micah Peltz, Temple Beth Sholom, Cherry Hill, NJ

A few years ago, my community in Cherry Hill had been trying to figure out how to provide higher-level Jewish learning to our congregants who were ready for it. In...

By Stuart Weinblatt, RA Director of Israel Policy and Advocacy

Last Thursday, the RA hosted a delegation of Israeli reporters and staff of members of Knesset.

In many respects, it was our movement at its best. RA Vice President...

By Arthur Lavinsky, Beth El Congregation of Phoenix
Excerpted from a sermon delivered on December 17, 2011.

Pictured below: Rabbi Louis Barish in uniform.

Rabbi Louis Barish, a long time member of Beth El Congregation and...

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By Mauricio Balter, president of the Masorti Movement

In recent weeks we witnessed radicalization in the name of religion perpetrated by Jews whose actions desecrate God’s name. The religious extremism and...

The Rabbinical Assembly reacts with horror at the increasing and wanton violence carried out by extremist Israeli Jews last week. Their attacks on the IDF last Tuesday at an army base in the West Bank, and the torching of a mosque in Jerusalem on...

Originally published on December 13, 2011

By Dina Shargel z"l, Ritual Director, Temple Israel Center, White Plains, NY

On November 21, my family and I had the sad task of burying my father-in-law, Burton Projansky, of blessed memory.

By Julie Schonfeld

Camp Ramah registrations are arriving in mailboxes around the country. Mine arrived last week.

In August, on the last day of Camp Ramah Nyack, I attended the annual רקודיה, “Festivale,” as a parent. Perhaps the most...

By Jonathan Wittenberg (excerpted from his book The Eternal Journey)

Even the darkness is not too dark for Thee,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness is even as the light.
Ps. 139:11–12

It is held that...

Pictured below:
Julie Schonfeld and Susan Turnbull, JWI Board of Trustees Chair (Photo: Michael Kress)

Washington, DC – Jewish Women International (JWI) honored Rabbi Julie Schonfeld yesterday with its 2011 Women to Watch award. Rabbi...