Ben Harris (JTA)
By Ben Harris (JTA)
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Fast Forward In Response to Economic Downturn, Reform Movement Plans Reorganization
The Reform movement has approved a reorganization plan. At a special meeting Sunday night, the board of trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism voted to reconfigure the organization and help congregations coping with a bleak economic landscape. The reorganization is part of a plan announced several weeks ago that will result in the elimination…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Prepare for Rare Blessing of the Sun
As sunrise broke over New York City on the morning of April 8, 1981, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi — at the time he was known just as Zalman Schachter — stood on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and sounded the shofar. For more than two hours after, Shachter-Shalomi led some 300 mostly young…
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