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eNews >> Archive >> eNews January 08USCJ eNews: The United Synagogue Electronic BulletinJanuary 2008
In This Issue:
2007 International Biennial Convention - Our convention, which drew delegates from across North America to Orlando for five days of learning, networking, praying, and growing, was a great success. Our convention coverage includes the d’var Torah about the meaning of Conservative Judaism given by our executive vice president, Rabbi Jerome Epstein, and the talk by Dr. Arnold Eisen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, on the things that unite us. Read more about the convention. Sallai Meridor, above right, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, stopped off from the summit in Annapolis to talk to the convention. Here he stands with Rabbi Jerome Epstein. USY Convention - United Synagogue Youth just finished its annual convention -- more than 1,000 teenagers met in Anaheim, California, and had a rousingly wonderful time. At the convention, Gershom Sizomu, a rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinical Studies, was presented with a check for $15,000, raised by USYers. The money will be used to build a yeshiva for Mr. Sizomu’s community, the Abayudaya, in Uganda. More about the convention will follow next month. [ Back to Top ]
Tzohar Orlando - There is misery in the world and there are ways we can help alleviate some of it. Just before our convention, a group of delegates spent a few days learning and helping with Tzohar Orlando. [ Back to Top ]
Inclusion - Because we know that each of us is created in God’s image and so is of unimaginable value, we are working to to sensitize ourselves to how much it matters that our synagogues be accessible to all. Our new webpage has information that can help us; the page, like our own sensitivity, will keep growing. United Synagogue’s Commission on Inclusion of People with Disabilities, the group that created the webpage, recommends a new movie, Praying With Lior, which explores the intersection of spirituality and disability. It will be screened in various places across North America from now at least through March. Passover in Las Vegas - Yes, Passover is a family holiday; we spent 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 winter’s not yet started 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. Nativ - Nativ, USY’s yearlong program for post-high school students, is now accepting applications. Nativ students spend on 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 ]
Teaching Rabbinic Literature - Our education department and the Solomon Schechter Day School Assocation offer a research conference, Teaching Rabbinic Literature, on January 27 to January 28 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Hazak in Israel - United Synagogue and Hazak, for people 55 and over, join to offer a trip to Israel next winter. Participants will spend February 12 to 24 in Jerusalem, celebrate Shabbat at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, and take day trips around the country. The trip is sold out but there is a waiting list; 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 Director’s 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 ]
On-Line Tehillim From Fuchsberg - The next entry in the Conservative Yeshiva’s virtual hevruta program, On-Line Tehillim, which looks at the Book of Psalms, begins on February 10 and continues for 10 weeks.
Hanukkah at Fuchsberg - Two Hanukkah programs drew visitors to United Synagogue’s Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center. On Sunday, a party given by Tarbut featured Omar the Storyteller, shown at righ; more than 220 children, parents, and grandparents came to listen, sing, eat, make arts and crafts, and play together (picture at right). The Fuchsberg Center’s Monday Evening Forum cosponsored a Hanukkah concert with Moreshet Yisrael. Cantorial students from the Jewish Theological Seminary, studying at Fuchsberg’s Conservative Yeshiva for the year, sang to an audience of about 115 people. [ Back to Top ]
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