USCJ Blog
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USY Distributes First-Ever “Chapter Engagement and Innovation Grant”
August 7, 2018 26 Av, 5778USY distributed over $22,000 in grants to 13 chapters across the country to encourage groundbreaking programming and innovation in the USY chapter.
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Rabbi Wernick Represents Conservative/Masorti Movement in Israel
July 10, 2018 27 Tammuz, 5778CEO Rabbi Steven Wernick recaps his recent trip to Israel.
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Prayers for Immigrant Families Separated at the Border
June 22, 2018 9 Tammuz, 5778Rabbinical colleagues shared their prayers for families being separated at the border and encourage you to do the same.
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Resources to Take Action to Help Asylum Seekers
June 20, 2018 7 Tammuz, 5778USCJ condemns the zero-tolerance immigration policy that has led to the separation of children from their families at the border. Here are ways to take action.
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USCJ Co-Signs Letter Condemning U.S. ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Immigration Policy
June 20, 2018 7 Tammuz, 5778USCJ was one of 26 Jewish institutions and organizations to co-sign a letter urging the Administration to rescind this policy.
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USCJ Signs on as Community Partner for #Metoo Town Hall Event
May 25, 2018 11 Sivan, 5778USCJ is proud to have signed on as a community partner for this upcoming event, a timely town-hall style conversation about sexual harassment in the J
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USCJ Mourns Passing of Shoshana S. Cardin
May 22, 2018 8 Sivan, 5778“In a place where there are no leaders, strive to be a leader.” (Pirkei Avot Mishnah, 2.5) It is with great sadness that we learned of the
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Teen Engagement and the Great Shabbat
April 10, 2018 25 Nisan, 5778For more than 60 years, USY has been at the forefront for teen engagement in Jewish society throughout all of North America. USY has brought the joy o
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USYers Reflect on March For Our Lives
April 9, 2018 24 Nisan, 5778USYers reflect on their experiences at March for Our Lives.
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Resources to Help Your Congregants During Crisis
March 13, 2018 26 Adar, 5778Our learning department shares resources for your congregation to support students and parents following the Parkland, FL shooting.
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USYers March for Their Lives
March 6, 2018 19 Adar, 5778USY is supporting teens who would like to March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. and other cities across the country.
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Religious Pluralism in Israel : Reality or Pipedream?
February 13, 2018 28 Shevat, 5778The Jewish Center in Princeton creates a program to educate congregants on issues of religious inequality in Israel.
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Fourth Cohort of the USCJ Ruderman Inclusion Action Community Launches
February 9, 2018 24 Shevat, 577815 new congregations join the fourth cohort of the USCJ Ruderman Inclusion Action Community.
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USYers Assure Kaddish is Said for Weiss Family for 11 Months
January 9, 2018 22 Tevet, 5778CEO Rabbi Wernick and Rabbi Morris Allen of Beth Jacob Congregation on the mitzvah of saying Kaddish for the Weiss family for 11 months.
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Ideas and Resources from USCJ Convention 2017
December 19, 2017 1 Tevet, 5778For five days earlier this month, 1,000 people from nearly 200 congregations convened in Atlanta to question the assumptions we bring to the Jewish pr
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