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YOU ARE HERE: eNews >> Archive >> eNews February 08USCJ eNews: The United Synagogue Electronic BulletinFebruary 2008
In This Issue: Solomon Schechter Awards - Before every United Synagogue international biennial convention, we ask our member synagogues to send us materials about programs that are unusually creative, successful, appealing, or in some way go well above and far beyond expectations. Volunteers and staffers consider the mountains of material we receive, and the results of those examinations, the Solomon Schechter Awards, divided into 27 areas that together make up synagogue life, are presented at the convention. Your Child - In this season’s edition of Your Child, young parents can learn more about how to raise happy, healthy, deeply rooted Jewish children. Inclusion for People with Disabilities - Not only should our synagogues and other institutions be as accessible as possible, our website should be too. Clicking on the wheelchair icon at the top of our homepage gets you a graphics-free version of our homepage that is accessible with screen reading technology. From there, when you click on the link at the top you can go to the inclusion page, where you can learn more about how to include as many people as possible, and why it matters to all of us. United Synagogue’s Commission on Inclusion of People with Disabilities, which created the webpage, recommends a new movie, Praying With Lior, that explores the intersection of spirituality and disability. It will be screened in various places across North America from now at least through April. Passover in Las Vegas - Yes, Passover is a family holiday; we spend it at home, with the people we love. But it’s also a lot of work – maybe for once you’d like to take the family and leave the work behind? Consider joining us in the Ritz Carlton Lake Las Vegas for a Conservative Pesach. USY Summer Programs - Although we are still in midwinter, it's already time to plan for the summer of 2008, and USY’s all over it. You can register for programs that include Classic USY on Wheels; USY on Wheels, Mission: Mitzvah; USY on Wheels, East; Summer in the City; Israel Adventure; Eastern Europe/Israel Pilgrimage; Israel Pilgrimage/Poland Seminar; Spain/Israel Pilgrimage; and Etgar! Outdoor Adventure, Israel. Our summer programs for high-school students provide topnotch staffs, transportation, lodging, sightseeing, and security, and give our participants a strengthened sense of themselves as young Conservative Jews. USY High - USY High, USY’s program for high-school students in Israel, run jointly with Ramah Israel, is now accepting applications. [ Back to Top ]
USYers March to Protest Darfur Genocide - As part of its annual international convention, held this year in Anaheim, California, at the end of December, the approximately 1,000 USYers at the convention marched for three miles to protest the genocide in Darfur. Social justice, one of the undergirding tenets of Conservative Judaism, was a theme that ran throughout the convention; USYers also presented funds they'd raised for a yeshiva to be built in Uganda.
USY Elects Executive Board - At its convention, USY delegates elected a new international executive board. From left, they are Adam Berman, Deborah Hoffman, Daniel Novick, Missy Mandell, Josh Warshawsky, and Scott Strenger.
JEA Honors Rich Moline - The Jewish Educators Assembly honored Richard Moline, the director of United Synagogue’s Koach program for college students, before that USY’s regional Midwestern director, and well before that a USY international president, for his contributions to Jewish education, both formal and information, at the organization’s annual conference in January. [ Back to Top ]
Jewish Educators Meet - In January, a group of Jewish educators met in Las Vegas to learn about teaching, spirituality, each other, and themselves. [ Back to Top ]
Hazak in Israel – 45 people, between 66 and 91 years old, are going to Israel this month on a trip jointly sponsored by United Synagogue and Hazak, our program for people 55 and older. Participants will spend February 12 to 24 in Jerusalem, celebrate Shabbat at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, and take day trips around the country. This trip is sold out, but there is a waiting list for next year; for more information, click here or email Bruce Greenfield at Greenfield@uscj.org. Koach Kallah - From February 28 to March 2, Northwestern University in metropolitan Chicago will host the Koach Kallah. College students from more than 60 campuses will gather for a weekend of fun, study, friendship, and worship. Sulam - United Synagogue’s 2008 program for new synagogue presidents and vice presidents, Sulam, meets in Newark March 6-9 and in Chicago March 27-30. For more information, email Rabbi Moshe Edelman at Edelman@uscj.org. New Directors Institute - Becoming the director of a synagogue school is an extremely worthy undertaking – and a formidable one. We offer support, training, and the hard-earned experience of our staff at the New Directors’ Institute from June 23 to June 27. Email Serene Victor for more information. Educators on the Move - If you are taking a new job as a synagogue educator, join us for networking and support from July 30 to 31. For more information, email Serene Victor. Imun – United Synagogue’s 2008 intensive 9-day workshop for synagogue skills is set for July 6 to 14 at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires in upstate New York. For more information, email Rabbi Paul Drazen at drazen@uscj.org. [ Back to Top ]
Hazak Studies in Israel - Hazak, United Synagogue’s program for people who are 55 and older, offers a study trip to the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center in Israel this summer. From June 22 to July 2, participants will be able to immerse themselves in the richly Jewish atmosphere of Jerusalem as they study ancient texts and explore modern questions through a Conservative lens. Nativ - Nativ, USY’s yearlong program for post-high school students, is now accepting applications. Nativ students spend one semester at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, studying either there or at the Hebrew University, and the other semester in a kibbutz or doing another social action project. [ Back to Top ]
This year, Purim will begin on the evening of March 20. Celebrate it reading from this edition of the Book of Esther, translated by Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg. The book contains the entire text of Megillat Esther in both English and Hebrew, along with commentary based on the works of classical scholars. $8.95. The Five Megilloth and Jonah, with foreword by H.L. Ginsberg and illustrations by Ismar David, includes the books of Esther, Ruth, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, and Jonah, in both Hebrew and English. $14.95. For the Love of God and People: A Philosophy of Jewish Law, by Elliot N. Dorff. Rabbi Dorff is a prominent Jewish legal scholar, and his new book gives a comprehensive vision of his understanding of the Jewish legal system. He takes on such divisive issues as same-sex unions, agunot, and the motivation for following halakha. $35. [ Back to Top ]
Camp Ramah New England Plans Reunion - Alumni of Camp Ramah in New England, Camp Ramah in Glen Spey, and Camp Ramah in Connecticut are invited to a reunion at the New England camp on Memorial Day weekend. [ Back to Top ]
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