Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE

Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE (she/her) serves as Associate Director, Network Expansion Experiences Content & Implementation at the URJ. She is a key member of the team designing activities to connect a diverse community of young people and their grown-ups with the Reform movement, its camps and Israel programs, and its social justice work. Stephanie also writes and curates content of interest to parents at ReformJudaism.org.

Stephanie grew up in Cleveland, attended Indiana University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earned her MA at Brandeis as a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and served as a congregational educator for ten years before joining the URJ. A proud alumna of NFTY-Northeast Lakes and former board member of the Association of Reform Jewish Educators, Stephanie and her family reside in Minneapolis, MN.

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Parenting

Parenting with Purpose: A Free Guide

Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE
As part of our commitment to families, the URJ is pleased to offer our congregational partners an opportunity for parents and caregivers in your community to download Parenting with Purpose: Addressing Mental, Emotional, and Social Wellness.
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LGBTQ+ Equality

Organizational Partners in Action: How the Jewish Grandparents Network, URJ, and Keshet Partnered to Support Grandparents of Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender-expansive Youth

Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE
Terry Kaye
Tracey Labgold
Along with the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the Jewish Grandparents Network (JGN) and Keshet share a commitment to an inclusive Jewish community that reflects and affirms marginalized identities. We realized we could have the greatest impact towards a more inclusive community if we worked together.
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Family Activities

Purim: It's More than Just a Carnival

Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE

I remember the Purim celebrations of my youth: homemade cardboard crowns wrapped in aluminum foil; groggers fashioned from Styrofoam cups, dried beans, and masking tape; my brothers dressed in bathrobes, beards and mustaches sketched on their faces. As in many other congregations, our Purim carnival was run by the youth group as a fundraiser, and when I reached high school, I became a planner instead of a participant. We planned games and activities that sounded like fun to us teenagers and would be enjoyed by the religious school kids who were our target audience. Neither preschool children nor their parents were part of the planning equation.