• Happy New Year! Check Out the URJ’s Top 18 Stories of 2016

    What a year it’s been. With 2017 fast-approaching, we’ve rounded up the top 18 Reform Movement stories of 2016, listed below in no particular order. Looking for even more major Jewish moments?


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  • The Power of One

    With the expansion of the Machon Summer Leadership Institute at URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps, participants (Machonikim) not only learn how to become summer camp counselors, but they are also challenged to bring their newfound leadership skills to life, at home, through the creation and implementation of their very own Pop-Up Event.


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  • Building Upon Our Strengths

    Jewish education and youth engagement are in the midst of a paradigm shift. One powerful reality of this shift is the desire of individuals, of all ages, to be prosumers, co-creators of their Jewish experiences. With the formation of the Northeast Teen Collective, these URJ camps are providing a new, year-round, youth engagement and outreach strategy to support Jewish teens in the creation of their own Jewish experiences.


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  • Emily Messinger Director of the Northeast Teen Collective

    Please join Louis, Director of Eisner Camp, Debby Shriber, Director of Crane Lake Camp and Rabbi Bradley Solmsen, Director Campaign for Youth Engagement, as we welcome Emily Messinger and a new program initiative to the Northeast. The Northeast Teen Collective will be the URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camp’s new year-round youth engagement initiative.


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