A Personal Transformation in Costa Rica

A Personal Transformation in Costa Rica

By Beth Grant, Austin, TX Before the trip, Jonah, the Assistant Director for Mitzvah Corps, talked about to us how we would come out of this trip a different person, and that idea terrified me. I was already anxious being away from my home and friends, I didn’t want...
Shalom from Krakow!

Shalom from Krakow!

Hello, my name is Loui Dobin, and I am the Executive Director of the URJ Greene Family Camp. My wife Sheila and I have the pleasure and honor of accompanying your kids through Europe as the Senior Staff Member representing the URJ. I participated last year as well,...

Let’s Rock! G-Town Lock Down 2015

by Rabbi Marshal Klaven      Rabbi Klaven is the rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Galveston, Texas. “Let’s rock! Everybody, let’s rock! Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock.” That is how the first G-TOWN LOCK-DOWN at Congregation...