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URJ Launches JewV’Nation Fellowship: An Interfaith Outreach Incubator for Emerging Jewish Leaders

Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) today launched the JewV’Nation Fellowship, an innovative year-long project incubator and leadership development program supporting emerging Jewish leaders and creative interfaith outreach initiatives. The program, which will begin in early 2017, is supported in part with a Jewish Funders Network grant from Avenues to Jewish Engagement for Intermarried Couples and their Families, in honor of 2015 Genesis Prize Laureate Michael Douglas.

The JewV’Nation (pronounced “juvination”) Fellowship program will be led by April Baskin, URJ’s Vice President of Audacious Hospitality, and seeks to engage a new generation of leadership by valuing the perspectives and insights of the younger members of the community and supporting them with resources and strategies to bring their best ideas to life. The fellows themselves will define and create exciting and contemporarily relevant Jewish programming.

Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering

Sigal Samuel (Forward)

May 4, 2016

As calls for criminal justice reform continue to spark national debate, the largest-ever gathering of Jews of color convened this week in New York City to discuss matters of racial justice inside and outside the Jewish community.

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Reform Judaism Makes Inroads in Canada with its Focus on Social Justice

Judy Maltz (Haaretz)

February 4, 2016

Of nine Reform congregations in the Greater Toronto Area, two, including City Shul, did not exist five years ago. Its relatively small but growing membership includes black Jews, Asian Jews, an active transgender and many converts.