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Apr.20.2014
Pesach VI (Passover)

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Apr.21.2014
Pesach VII (Last day of Passover)

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Apr.22.2014 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Religious School Grades 3 to 7

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Apr.22.2014 7:30pm - Apr.22.2014 9:00pm
Intro to Judaism

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Apr.25.2014 7:00pm - Apr.25.2014 8:00pm
New Member Shabbat with Cantor Jordan

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Apr.26.2014 10:00am - 11:00am
Tot Shabbat

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Apr.27.2014
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Memorial Day

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Apr.27.2014 9:00am - 12:00pm
Religious School

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Apr.27.2014 9:30am - 11:30am
Opportunity House Trip

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Apr.29.2014 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Religious School Grades 3 to 7

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A Passover Social Action Update from the RAC Every year I look forward to Passover, when we gather with family and friends, share a festive meal, and retell the story of our exodus from Egypt – with all the lessons applied to today’s urgent moral dilemmas and to the struggles for freedom in America and across the globe. At every seder, I am touched by the creativity of connecting... Read the Full Story
Mitzvah Goreret Mitzvah By Alexa Maltby It isn’t every day that you have a life-changing experience, so to say I had a life-changing summer is a blessing. Urban Mitzvah Corps could easily be described as a six-week Jewish social action summer program. But life changing experiences aren’t that easy to describe. For the past two summers I took the long 15-minute... Read the Full Story
Christian and Jewish Leaders Achieve Breakthrough, Resuming Dialogue and Engagement The heads of Jewish and Christian organizations and denominations met in an unprecedented summit in New York City today to discuss strategies to strengthen and maintain relationships even in the face of significant disagreements. The gathering to discuss relationships and how we treat each other was the first to bring together these groups since a... Read the Full Story
WRJ Grants Encourage Female Enrollment at URJ Sci-Tech Academy As the enrollment level of boys surpasses that of girls for the inaugural summer at the URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy, Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) has made a $5,000 grant from its YES (Youth, Education, & Special Projects) Fund to provide scholarships for female campers. The scholarships are meant to encourage and support the participation of... Read the Full Story
SING OUT! The Beginnings of NFTY Music: A Look at the First Songs We Sang, Part Two By Cantor Wally Schachet-Briskin The music and the style of song leading as it has been popularized among Reform youth has moved the Jewish world. Music in NFTY and Reform camps, which began in 1951 in Wisconsin, seems to have been defined by the era in which it was sung, affected greatly by world events, politics, and technology. Camps were where... Read the Full Story