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A Prayerful Biennial: Models to Bring Home to Your Own Congregation
Worship opportunities will abound at the URJ Biennial this December! Designed not only to refresh the body and the spirit, the services also are models you may wish to bring home to your congregation...
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The Music of the URJ Biennial: What to Expect This Year
by Josh Nelson “The wave of a song carries the soul to heights which utterable meanings can never reach.” (Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man’s Quest for God) The URJ Biennial is just a month and a half...
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Fun for Jewish Foodies at the URJ Biennial
The URJ announced this week that renowned New York Times food writer Mark Bittman will address the 2013 URJ Biennial in a Friday forum, titled “Food, Food, You Shall Pursue.” The forum, sponsored by...
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The Songs of Your Youth and of the Reform Movement’s Youth
by Cantor Bradley Hyman At some point in a person’s life, they lose touch with the most current trends in popular music. To be clear, you will become your parents. You might make an effort to listen...
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Youth Engagement: The Power of Collaboration
It has been so encouraging to see so many turn their focus and attention towards youth engagement. In recent days alone, young women from NFTY had a voice and presence in our mission celebrating Women...
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The Community that is Biennial
by Celia Tedde Imagine: a young freshman flies across the country to attend her third NFTY event. She doesn’t know any of the teens she is about to meet, and her roommates are complete strangers....
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Are You Ready for Biennial Shabbat?
From Friday night song session to diverse, creative options for worship and learning, Shabbat at the URJ Biennial will feature something for everyone. Friday Night Shabbat Services First bring a...
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Join the Virtual Biennial Experience!
Can’t join us next week at the URJ Biennial? You can be a part of the convention from the comfort of your own home! We’ll be live-streaming all plenary sessions and Shabbat worship at...
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Fostering Inclusion and Accessibility at the 2013 Biennial
Anyone who has attended a URJ Biennial knows that the experience touches your soul, lifts your spirits, increases your Judaic knowledge, and improves your singing ability. Now, the 2013 Biennial will...
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Community and Leadership, Whether You’re at Biennial or Not
by Rachel Roth [Editor's Note: The following post was presented as a drash at an executive meeting of the American Conference of Cantors on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.] One of the most interesting...
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Announcing an Exciting New Israel Engagement Initiative for Congregations
The late Rabbi David Hartman, z”l, was honored posthumously tonight at the URJ Biennial Convention in San Diego, CA., by receiving the Reform Movement’s highest honor, the Alexander M. Schindler Award...
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Amidst 5,000 Worshipers, a Sanctuary of Peace
It’s not often that a rabbi gets to sit back off the bimah and lean into inspiring prayer. The constant responsibility for creating T’filah for others, partnering with a cantor and other shlichei...
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Unpacking the URJ Biennial
by Jaclyn Cohen Wow. That’s not a word I use often enough. But I will use it to describe the past four days, which I spent in San Diego along with about 5,000 others at the Union for Reform Judaism‘s...
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Twitter as a Means to Process a Professional Conference: Reflections on...
It happens every time. I forget how truly overwhelming the Union for Reform Judaism’s Biennial convention will be. I know that I will be busy with sessions, presentations and meetings. I know that I...
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Anat Hoffman’s Biennial Address: “More Than One Way to Be Jewish”
[Editor's Note: This address was given by Noa Sattath on behalf of Anat Hoffman, director of the Israel Religious Action Center and chairwoman of Women of the Wall, on Saturday night at the URJ...
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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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