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Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Address to the 2013 URJ Biennial
[Editor's note: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered the following remarks via satellite at the 2013 URJ Biennial on Sunday, December 15th.] Thank you very much, Rick [Jacobs]. I want to say...
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On Being the URJ Biennial’s Artist-in-Residence
by Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik What an incredible experience. Five thousand Reform Jews from around the world (mostly from North America) gathering together in San Diego for the 2013 URJ Biennial, where I...
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URJ Launches Details of “Inspired Engagement” for Jewish Youth
The URJ unveiled a new strategy for engaging youth at its Biennial Convention in San Diego this past week. “Inspired engagement” – what the URJ is branding as its distinct way of engaging youth –...
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Bringing 5,000 Voices to My Southern Jewish School
by Sara Beth Berman “Always thinking, you. Always thinking.” A friend in graduate school mockingly accused one overachieving friend by telling her she was “always thinking.” Because she was “always...
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A New Era of NFTY
By Andrew Keene An unidentified scholar teaches us, “Blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young, and doubly blessed is the generation in which the young listen to the old.” For 75...
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This Ain’t Your Father’s Reform Judaism
by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein One Friday night in December, I prayed at a Baptist-style, tent-revival, amen/hallelujah, neo-Hasidic Jewish service. Yes, that was Shabbat at the URJ Biennial, and although I...
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