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What Can British Progressive Jews Learn from Americans?

Rabbi Lea Mühlstein

Spending five days with 5,000 Progressive Jews and the vice president of the United States of America is a rather special experience for a Jew from England, especially one raised in Germany.

So when I attended the biennial conference of Liberal Judaism’s

5,000 Lights: A Poem Inspired by the URJ Biennial

Tina Alcala Salès

We come from many places
Hearts full of anticipation
Through terminals we move
Strangers and old friends
Young with quickened steps
Old with determination
Women and men
Boys and girls
Heads covered and uncovered
5,000 of us on a journey

We arrive
We greet one

Putting Teens in the Driver’s Seat

Rabbi Elizabeth Wood

It’s a question at the forefront of our minds: How do we engage more teens in meaningful Jewish life and use social justice as a powerful engagement tool?

These two related issues brought four hundred lay leaders, professionals and teens together recently at

(Re)watch the URJ Biennial Online!

Couldn't make it to the URJ Biennial and want to catch up on what you missed? Just got home from the event and already want to relive it? Videos are online now of most of the Biennial's plenary sessions and worship services, with more to come soon. 

So... How Was the URJ Biennial?

Jeremy Gimbel

As I return from the URJ Biennial, I prepare myself how to answer the most difficult question I am bound to be asked: "How was it?"

How was it?

I could use a myriad synonyms for "amazing," "outstanding," or "invigorating." But no word could possibly suffice