Campers2gether campers creating a bunk tallit for Shabbat t’filah blessings. Courtesy: URJ Greene Family Camp  By Allison Teegardin     In July, 26 Israeli teenagers who were displaced when their community Kibbutz Zikim was attacked on October 7, were welcomed to URJ...

Rabbi David N. Young and his wife, Cantor Natalie Young, in Chicago. Courtesy: Rabbi Young  By Corrie MacLaggan  Congregation Beth Israel has a new interim rabbi who believes passionately in making Judaism fun, leads a Dungeons & Dragons group for rabbis and...

Amit Kanfer and his family. Courtesy: Amit Kanfer    Twenty years ago, at the age of 22, right after the Israeli Army and just before college, Amit Kanfer was offered to travel to four states in the U.S. as part of the JCC Maccabi Games program. This offer didn’t come...