Like so many across the United States, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) is committed to ensuring a compassionate and just national response to the growing numbers of unaccompanied minors entering the United States along the southwest border. RAC's priority remains ensuring that all migrants can claim
Illinois' Block Illegal Ownership and Fix the FOID bill is likely to be heard in committee this week. If enacted, this policy will: Require background checks for all gun sales, including person-to-person, private sales. Verify the identity of FOID card applicants by requiring one set of fingerprints submitted to
From PJ Library The Passover table already has salt water to symbolize our ancestors' tears, so PJ Library wants to help you avoid shedding actual ones when planning how to lead your own seder. To make it as simple as possible, here’s our Step-by-Step Seder video playlist. In each brief segment, the
From ReformJudiasm.org The Passover seder is the most widely practiced Jewish ritual in modern society. Whether your family’s Passover traditions go back multiple generations or you’re planning to host a seder this year for the first time, we can help you make your holiday experience different – and better – than all other
Rabbi Rachel is keeping a running list of fun Passover traditions shared with her by Temple Jeremiah members. We invite you to check out the list, share your own Passover ideas, and have a rewarding, fun Seder this year!
Check out this human rights and social justice-oriented Haggadah organized by T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights here.
Plague is, certainly, a timely topic to all of us these days. Jews will also have plagues on the mind when the story of the Ten Biblical Plagues is read from the Book of Exodus (chapters 7-12) during the portions “Va’era” and “Bo” in the traditional synagogue Torah reading
Dear Fellow Congregants, Pikuach Nefesh, the preservation and protection of life, is one command that supersedes almost every other command in our Jewish tradition. Keeping this value front and center, the COVID-19 Advisory Task Force has reviewed our current operating procedures and made the following updates, which will go into
Star Wars is very Jewish. Here’s some proof: The word “Jedi” looks an awful lot like Yehudi, the Hebrew for “Jewish.” Yoda, the most rabbinic of all creatures in the galaxy, has a name that is essentially like the Hebrew word for “knowledge” (yada). Padawans gather in a training academy to
God didn’t design the Seder to put your kids to sleep. Instead, the Seder is an experience your family should love, treasure, and remember. Have you ever wondered that there might be something more to Passover, the Seder and in the Haggadah―something that just might hold the secrets to living
