USCJ Blog
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Beyond the Present: Embrace Forward Thinking with Sulam for Imagineers
August 9, 2024 5 Av, 5784By Ben Vorspan On July 17, 1955, Walt Disney stood before an eager crowd at the grand opening of Disneyland and delivered an address that would resona
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The Sulam for Imagineers – Do The Impossible!
July 8, 2024 2 Tammuz, 5784Walt Disney was on an early morning stroll down Main Street a few months after Disneyland opened to the public in 1955 when his groundskeeper waved hi
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Embracing Brotherhood: The Urgency and Benefits of Men’s Groups in the Jewish Community
May 3, 2024 25 Nisan, 5784Embracing Brotherhood: The Urgency and Benefits of Men’s Groups in the Jewish Community Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed Executive Director – Fe
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Six Months since Oct 7th
April 4, 2024 25 Adar II, 5784Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, CEO of USCJ and the RA One lesson I am learning in this challenging period is how we can hold two (or more) contradictory feel
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Reflections on the Conservative/Masorti Racial Justice Pilgrimage
March 27, 2024 17 Adar II, 5784March 3-7th, 2024 Rabbi Amy Eilberg On March 3rd, 2024, 20 leaders of the Conservative/Masorti movement gathered in New Orleans for a four-day
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Reflections on 150 Days
March 4, 2024 24 Adar I, 5784
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin who has now been held hostage for 150 days, speaks of being in “another world” since October 7.
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Nonprofit Filing
February 28, 2024 19 Adar I, 5784For US Congregations New Requirement If You Are Not Registered as a 501(c)(3) In 2021 Congress enacted the Federal Corporate Transparency Act [Title
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Women’s History Month Feature: Rabbi Leider
February 27, 2024 18 Adar I, 5784In 1988, I reached out to the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies to inquire about applying to rabbinical school. No questions about my gender, no obs
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Member Spotlight: Oheb Shalom Uses Storytelling to Increase Membership and Enrollment
February 23, 2024 14 Adar I, 5784When Oheb Shalom Congregation (South Orange, NJ) received a generous gift from a local philanthropist, it came with strings attached: reach more famil
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USCJ Coloring Book Campaign
January 26, 2024 16 Shevat, 5784USCJ Coloring Book Campaign Thank you for continuing to support USCJ in these challenging times. As a token of our appreciation, we invite you to down
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Our Vision is Bigger, Our Mission is Stronger
January 4, 2024 23 Tevet, 5784
Just a few weeks ago at our Conservative/Masorti Convening in Baltimore, my confidence in our Movement and the future of our communities was bolstered
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Really Great Reasons to Attend Shabbaton
September 28, 2023 13 Tishri, 5784Really Great Reasons to Attend Shabbaton
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Speaking is Leading: Advice for the Yom Kippur Congregational Address
August 30, 2023 13 Elul, 5783By David Harrison, Immediate Past President, Beth El Congregation (Baltimore, MD) As the great hot summer of 2023, with its attendant humidity, slowly
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Member Spotlight: How Our Shul Stopped Landfilling Disposables and Learned to Love Inconvenience
August 23, 2023 6 Elul, 5783By Cynthia Hirsch and Leslie Fields At Beth Israel Center in Madison, Wisconsin, we are a community of volunteers. Our medium size shul of 275 familie
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Interfaith Inclusion in our Movement
August 17, 2023 30 Av, 5783Dear Friends: Intermarriage, and inclusion of intermarried couples and families, has been an important issue for our movement for decades. Rather tha
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