A Fifth Cup – Going Beyond What is Required

Apr 9, 2014

by Rabbi Joshua Weinberg, President of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA) and an OSRUI Alum. Growing up, I struggled with the impression that being a Reform Jew meant that we did less. Fewer mitzvot, shorter holiday observance, and less time spent in...

18 Years After Yitzhak Rabin

Nov 5, 2013

by Deborah Goldberg, Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and an OSRUI Alum. My first memory of being taught of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination was during the summer of 2006 as a camper in the Hebrew-immersion program at...