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UTJ announces an upcoming siddur classes with Rabbi Professor Reuven Kimelman co-sponsored by the co-sponsored by the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. Via Zoom, Sundays March 9 and April 6 at 11:00 AM Eastern (6:00 PM Israel): Click here for further information and to register.
UTJ announces an upcoming webinar “Upcoming Webinar: Sacred Duty: Providing Spiritual Care in the 21st Century” with Rabbi Andy Schultz, Chaplain Margo Heda, and Rabbi Ben Vineburg. Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM Eastern (5:30 PM Israel): Click here for further information and to register.
UTJ announces an upcoming webinar with Rabbi Professor Reuven Kimelman co-sponsored by the co-sponsored by the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. Sunday, October6, 2024 at 11:00 AM Eastern (6:00 PM Israel): Are We Worthy or Do We Need God’s Mercy? Two Perspectives on Human Worthiness in the Grace-Based Yom Kippur Ne’ilah and the Covenant-Based Minimal Shema Continue Reading »
Contact: The Union for Traditional Judaism, office@utj.org, (914) 662-9649 The Union for Traditional Judaism expresses its shock and horror regarding the recent attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump. It is incumbent on all people of faith to consider how such evil enters the mind of any human being and to temper our expressions, Continue Reading »
Video of this program is now available at https://utj.org/viewpoints/videos/commemoration-of-the-second-yahrzeit-of-rabbi-david-halivni-zl/. UTJ announces an upcoming webinars commemorating the second Yahrzeit of our teacher Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, which will be on Sunday, July 14 at 9:30 AM Eastern / 4:30 PM Israel time. Click here for further information and to register.
UTJ announces an upcoming webinars with Rabbi Professor Reuven Kimelman co-sponsored by the co-sponsored by the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 12:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM Israel): How does the inexplicable poem for Shavuot, Akdamut, make sense of the first blessing of the Shema Liturgy? Click here for further information and Continue Reading »
Dear Friends of UTJ, UTJ wishes everyone a happy, healthy, and Kosher Passover. We are happy to share with you that as always Rabbi Jeffrey Rappoport, editor of The Kosher Nexus has been hard at work providing updated Passover guidance for this year. New or updated this year are: The Kosher For Passover Kosher Nexus Newsletter with helpful Continue Reading »
A man of many hats (and yarmulkes), Rabbis Schultz, a husband and father of five, recently accepted the position of part-time executive administrator at the Union for Traditional Judaism and its rabbinical arm, Morashah. In this capacity, he will coordinate programming and communications, while also helping to boost the 40-year-old organization’s membership and donor base.
Please note: Video of this webinar is now available here. UTJ announces an upcoming webinar “The Taboo Against ‘Next Year in Jerusalem’ in the American Haggadah” with Professor Jonathan D. Sarna. Professor Sarna is University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian at Continue Reading »
Please note: This webinar series has concluded. View video of part 1 here and part 2 here. UTJ announces an upcoming webinar series, Judaism and the Laws of War with Rabbi Professor Reuven Kimelman co-sponsored by the co-sponsored by the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. Wednesdays, February 7 and 14 at 8:00-9:15 PM Eastern, Via Zoom Continue Reading »