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TCS Selected by URJ to Engage Baby Boomers

07/07/2016 02:33:49 PM

Jul7

The Community Synagogue is Chosen for Select Group of North American Congregations
Engaging Baby Boomers

July 5, 2016, Port Washington, New York " The Community Synagogue is one of 17 Reform congregations in North America selected to participate in the newly formed Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) Community of Practice dedicated to Engaging Baby Boomers. This URJ Community of Practice (CoP) is a congregational networking...Read more...

Dues, Just a Piece of the Financial Sustainability Puzzle

06/29/2016 06:24:18 PM

Jun29

Dues, just a piece of the financial sustainability puzzle

Changing dues model outweighs the risk.

A recent article, by Barry S. Mael, Director, Kehilla Operations & Finance at USCJ, summarizes the results of a study involving hundreds of USCJ congregations regarding their current dues models....Read more...

What blessings do I bring to others?

06/14/2016 03:10:05 PM

Jun14

 

Clergy statement | Terror in Orlando

06/13/2016 08:38:51 PM

Jun13

Our hearts break over the loss of life and pain caused to so many in the horrible attack in Orlando on Saturday evening. The Torah teaches us that we are all made in God's image and every life is sacred. With one common ancestor, our rabbis teach "to destroy one life is to destroy the entire world."

And yet in every generation...Read more...

The voice of my brother's blood cries out to me

06/13/2016 07:55:59 PM

Jun13

Rabbi Danny Burkeman

On Sunday night my son Benjamin couldn't sleep. It goes without saying that I couldn't sleep either. As I tried to comfort him I watched the minutes and the hours tick by. Finding myself awake during the night my mind always races, and as I held my son I kept...Read more...

Is Torah a "gift" (To me? To the world?) I appreciate?

06/07/2016 04:19:16 PM

Jun7

Make Each New Song More Joyful Than the Last

06/07/2016 03:01:40 PM

Jun7

By Cantor Claire Franco
Link to URJ post>

Recently, as I was leaving the sanctuary on Shabbat morning, a man who was a guest of the bar mitzvah family approached me. Warmly shaking my hand and thanking me for a “lovely service,” he asked several questions about the music I...Read more...

Rabbi Z Speaks about how to protest Trump at the AIPAC Conference

03/21/2016 01:35:39 PM

Mar21

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/sit-silence-turn-away-or-walk-out-jewish-groups-mull-aipac-trump-protest

Rabbi Zeplowitz and others weigh in. Will there be anyone be in the room when Donald Trump speaks at the AIPAC Policy Conference on Monday?

Several Jewish groups are weighing the best way to show their disapproval of Trump when he speaks at the massive pro-Israel gathering. Last year roughly 16,000 people...Read more...

Why I Love The Early Childhood Center

03/16/2016 02:21:40 PM

Mar16

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/rabbi-daddy-why-i-love-the-synagogues-early-childhood-center/

by Rabbi "Daddy" Danny

When you become a Rabbi at a synagogue, one of the first questions you get asked is “What should we call you?” For me it was an easy question. Rabbi Burkeman sounded like one of the old Jewish studies teachers I...Read more...

How do I stand up for the Jewish people?

03/14/2016 05:20:09 PM

Mar14

How do I stand up for the Jewish people?

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