The World Union for Progressive Judaism ( WUPJ ) is the international umbrella organization for the various branches of Reform, Liberal and Progressive Judaism , as well as the separate Reconstructionist Judaism . The WUPJ is based in 40 countries with 1,275 affiliated synagogues, of which 1,170 are Reform, Progressive, or Liberal and 105 Reconstructionist. It claims to represent a total of some 1.8 million people, both registered constituents and non-member identifiers. The WUPJ states that it aims to create common ground between its constituents and to promote Progressive Judaism in places where individuals and groups are seeking authentic, yet modern ways of expressing themselves as Jews. It seeks to preserve Jewish integrity wherever Jews live, to encourage integration without assimilation , to deal with modernity while preserving the Jewish experience, and to strive for equal rights and social justice .
31-657: Synagogue arm of Reconstructionist Judaism World Union for Progressive Judaism [REDACTED] Jews Judaism Denominations Regional affiliates North America ( Reform Reconstructionist ) United Kingdom ( Reform Liberal ) Australia, New Zealand and Asia South Africa Israel Germany Netherlands France ( ULIF MJLF ) Project Portal Category v t e The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation ( JRF ), founded in 1955,
62-742: A $ 20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation , which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg . The Society publishes books, a genealogy program, museums tours, academic assistance and other related educational activities. Additionally, the American Jewish Historical Society publishes the following publications: The American Jewish Historical Society has some 40 million items in its archives, including manuscripts , printed material, photographs, audio files, film files, digital material, and objects. Important elements of
93-458: A 1989 graduate of the College, and currently by Rabbi Deborah Waxman who took over in 2014. In January 2018, the merged organization changed its name to Reconstructing Judaism . See also [ edit ] List of Reconstructionist synagogues References [ edit ] ^ "Movement Restructuring FAQs" . Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. June 4, 2012. Archived from
124-528: A national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history. The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) is the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States. The Society's library, archives, photograph, and art and artifacts collections document the American Jewish experience. AJHS
155-1002: A regional office in Buenos Aires in 1963 to "strengthen and build Jewish religious life" in South America. Since the early 2000s, a Latin American affiliate has been evolving. Officially founded at the Leaders Regional Conference of Progressive Communities in Córdoba (Argentina), in December 2009, then WUPJ-Latin America renamed itself the Union for Reform Judaism - Latin America (UJR-AmLat, the acronym in Spanish and Portuguese) in 2019. The main concern of
186-643: A somewhat similar ideal existed in Charleston between 1824 and 1833. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, URJ since 2003, was founded in 1873. North America is also home to the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation , which has affiliates, 97 only five of them outside the continent (in Delft , Netherlands , Curaçao ; Wiesbaden , Germany ; Serrastretta , Italy ; Ijuí , Brazil ). The JRF joined as an observer in 1990. It
217-511: Is located at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. AJHS serves public educational and interpretive functions by publishing a journal, a newsletter, monographs and reference works; organizing and curating exhibits; and developing resources and curricula on the American Jewish experience. In 2007, it was among over 530 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of
248-582: Is the only non-Reform organization in the WUPJ, the other members of which do uphold the basic tenets of ongoing revelation, personal God and the like. In 2013, it had some 65,000 constituents. Claude Montefiore , a major theologian, named his religious ideology "Liberal Judaism", founding the Jewish Religious Union as a platform in 1902. His movement was a founding member of the WUPJ in 1926. British Reform, established officially in 1942, joined
279-743: The UK Reform and UK Liberal . Abraham Geiger College focuses on providing leadership for communities in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. Hebrew Union College, with campuses in the United States and Israel, trains rabbis and communal service leaders for work in North American Reform and Israeli Progressive congregations. It also provides a year-in-Israel program for students at the Leo Baeck College and Abraham Geiger Institute. The Moscow Institute trains leadership for
310-600: The American Soviet Jewry Movement . The Society holds the original manuscript of " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus , as well as very early American Jewish documents, including Judah Monis 's Hebrew grammar textbook (1735), the first American siddur for Jewish holidays printed in English (1761), and the first Hebrew-English prayerbook published in the United States (1826). The Society also holds documents from American Jewish Patriots of
341-832: The Institute for Modern Jewish Studies in Moscow, the Iberoamerican Institute for Reform Rabbinical Education, the École Rabbinique de Paris, the Levisson Institute Amsterdam, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. While all eight train rabbis for the worldwide progressive movement, each has a different focus. Leo Baeck College, located in the United Kingdom, focuses on leadership for
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#1732781101929372-585: The Israeli Orthodox religious establishment. The movement was established in 1931 with the encouragement of Abraham Zevi Idelsohn and Lily Montagu . South African Jewry is mostly nominally Orthodox, with those in Progressive streams accounting for around 10% of South African Jews currently residing in the country. The movement was established in the 1930s in Melbourne by Ada Phillips with
403-514: The President of the WUPJ was Rabbi Sergio Bergman , and the Chair was Carole Sterling. Past presidents have included Claude Montefiore (1926–38), Rabbi Leo Baeck (1938–56), Lily Montagu (1955–59), and Rabbi Solomon Freehof (1959–64). The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, was founded in 1873. It is by far the largest member organization of
434-877: The Reconstructionist movement is rebranding" . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . Retrieved 2020-12-13 . External links [ edit ] new site of the Jewish Reconstructionist Movement archived site of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Reconstructionist Press Reconstructionist Summer Programs Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations Guide to
465-1286: The Records of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation at the American Jewish Historical Society , New York, NY v t e Jews and Judaism in the United States Major communal organizations B'nai B'rith Jewish Community Centers Jewish Federations of North America Local Jewish Federations Major advocacy organizations (not exclusively Israel-focused) American Jewish Committee American Jewish Congress Anti-Defamation League Conference of Presidents Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) Religious Action Center Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRCs) Jewish Council for Public Affairs Jewish environmental groups Jewish Future Pledge Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) Jewish Women's Archive National Jewish Democratic Council Republican Jewish Coalition Office of
496-679: The Russian-speaking communities, the École Rabbinique de Paris does so for the French-speaking communities, and the Levisson Institute for the Dutch-speaking communities. The Iberoamerican Institute focuses on Latin America and Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking communities, offering an online programme with weeklong, in-person seminars twice a year. The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College trains leadership for
527-1014: The Society's collection include hundreds of historical manuscripts and other records of American Jewish groups, including the papers of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the Synagogue Council of America , the American Jewish Congress , the American Jewish Committee , and the Hebrew Benevolent Society, as well as the papers of HIAS (formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society ) from 1954 to 2000; United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York and predecessor organizations from 1909 to 2004; and
558-5052: The Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism White House Jewish Liaison Jewish Labor Committee Jewish Democratic Council of America Major humanitarian organizations American Jewish World Service Joint Distribution Committee Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society United Israel Appeal Major Israel-focused organizations Ameinu American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Americans for Peace Now Birthright Israel Hadassah Israeli-American Council J Street Jewish Voice for Peace Masa Israel Journey Middle East Media Research Institute Nefesh B'Nefesh New Israel Fund Tzofim Friendship Caravan Zionist Organization of America Major domestic and neighborhood assistance organizations Chaverim Hatzalah Secure Community Network Shomrim Tomchei Shabbos Major religious movement organizations (and associated rabbinical membership and policy body; seminary) Agudath Israel of America ( Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah ; etc.) Agudas Chasidei Chabad ( Vaad Rabonei Lubavitch ; Tomchei Tmimim-U.S. , RCA , etc.) Jewish Reconstructionist Federation ( Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association ; RRC ) Young Israel Orthodox Union ( Rabbinical Council of America ; RIETS-YU , etc.) Society for Humanistic Judaism United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism ( Rabbinical Assembly ; JTSA / AJU-Ziegler ) Union for Reform Judaism ( Central Conference of American Rabbis ; HUC ) List of synagogues (by movements) by US states Former Conservative Humanistic Orthodox and Modern Orthodox Reconstructionist Reform Unaffiliated Youth organizations Jewish summer camp B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO) ( AZA / BBG ) Bnei Akiva NCSY North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY) Tzivos Hashem United Synagogue Youth (USY) / Kadima Young Judaea Education College Jewish studies programs Hebrew school Jewish day school See template for schools Schechter Torah Umesorah Yeshiva / Mesivta Major university groups Organizations Chabad on Campus Hillel Masorti on Campus Orthodox student groups World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Fraternities and sororities Alpha Epsilon Pi Alpha Epsilon Phi Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi Sigma Alpha Mu Sigma Delta Tau Tau Delta Phi Tau Epsilon Phi Zeta Beta Tau Media News wires Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jewish News Syndicate News outlets Algemeiner Journal Baltimore Jewish Times Charlotte Jewish News Cleveland Jewish News Der Blatt Der Yid Di Tzeitung Hamodia The Jewish Advocate (Bost.) The Forward The Jewish Exponent (Phila.) The Jewish Journal (L.A.) The Jewish Ledger (Conn.) Jewish News of Greater Phoenix The Jewish Press Jewish Standard (N.J.) The Jewish Star (N.Y.) Jewish Voice JWeekly (S.F.) New York Jewish Week New Jersey Jewish News Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle St. Louis Jewish Light Washington Jewish Week Yated Ne'eman Vos Iz Neias? Yeshiva World News Magazines Ami Binah Commentary Emunah Magazine Jewish Currents Jewish Sports Review Jewish World Review Kindline Lilith Mishpacha Moment San Diego Jewish Journal San Diego Jewish World SAPIR Tablet Tikkun We Are in America Television Jewish Broadcasting Service Jewish Life Television (JLTV) National Jewish Television The Jewish Channel Websites AskMoses.com Chabad.org Heeb Jewcy Jewish Virtual Library Kosher.com Mosaic Tablet Magazine Yeshiva.co Dating JDate JSwipe Lox Club Matzo Ball SawYouAtSinai Major communal activities Siyum HaShas Super Sunday phone-a-thon [REDACTED] Category Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jewish_Reconstructionist_Federation&oldid=1212755511 " Categories : Reconstructionist synagogues World Union for Progressive Judaism Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata World Union for Progressive Judaism The WUPJ
589-466: The WUPJ, with a solid constituency of over 750,000 Jewish members (along with further 90,000 unconverted gentile spouses) and over a million non-members who identify with it in the U.S., and further 30,000 constituents in Canada. As of 2016, 1.5 million of the 1.9 million members of WUPJ are in the U.S. German immigrants and rabbis brought Reform to America, although a short-lived congregation that espoused
620-662: The associated Reconstructionist Movement. Netzer Olami is the worldwide youth movement of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) and is affiliated to Arzenu (the Zionist arm of the WUPJ). "Netzer" is an acronym in Hebrew for Reform Zionist Youth ( Noar Tsioni Reformi , נוער ציוני רפורמי), and Netzer Olami means 'Global Netzer'. Today there are 16,000 members active in the different sniffim (chapters) that are located in
651-581: The encouragement of Lily Montagu and Israel Mattuck. Australian Jewry is similar to its South African counterpart in that it is mostly nominally Orthodox. Around twenty percent of affiliated Jews in Australia belong to progressive congregations. Reform Judaism began in Germany, led by Rabbi Abraham Geiger . It stagnated considerably after the 1840s. In 1898, German Liberal rabbis organized the Union of Liberal Rabbis in Germany under Heinemann Vogelstein. In 1908
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#1732781101929682-665: The following places: Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Costa Rica, Germany, Israel (Noar Telem), The Netherlands, North America ( NFTY ), Panama, Russia, South Africa, France, United Kingdom (LJY-Netzer, RSY-Netzer ) and Ukraine. The Netzer Olami head office is in Beit Shmuel, (The Head Office the World Union for Progressive Judaism) in Jerusalem. Every year, the Netzer Veida Olamit (the decision-making and ideology forum) attracts participants from most of, if not all,
713-516: The global organization in 1945. A first congregation was formed at Jerusalem during 1958. The movement was incorporated in 1971. The Israeli surrounding encouraged a more conservative approach on behalf of the local branch. The prayer in vernacular, for example, was Hebrew anyway, and the populace was relatively more familiar with rabbinic sources. Patrilineal descent is not recognized by the IMPJ, as by many other smaller affiliates, which cannot antagonize
744-415: The international umbrella organization for progressive religious Zionist organizations, and Netzer Olami , the international youth wing of the progressive movement, jointly sponsored by Arzenu and the WUPJ. Rabbis, cantors, and communal leaders for the worldwide progressive movement are trained in one of eight rabbinic institutions: Leo Baeck College , Abraham Geiger College , Hebrew Union College ,
775-494: The laity formed the Union for Liberal Judaism in Germany . At its height, it had some 10,000 members and half the rabbis in the country. The ULJ was a founding member of the World Union in 1926. After the destruction of the Holocaust, Germany's Jews, mostly refugees of foreign descent, largely favoured Orthodoxy. Liberal Judaism managed to gain inroads slowly, and first prayer groups appeared in 1995. The Union of Progressive Jews
806-670: The original on June 6, 2013 . Retrieved June 5, 2012 . ^ "Do the Jewish Streams Have a Future?" . The Jewish Exponent. May 9, 2012. Archived from the original on May 14, 2012 . Retrieved June 5, 2012 . ^ Elkin, Michael (2014-10-27). "Waxman Inaugurated as Head of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College" . Jewish Exponent. ^ "Forward 50 2015: Deborah Waxman" . The Forward. 2015. ^ "Our New Name: Frequently Asked Questions" . January 29, 2018 . Retrieved 2020-12-13 . ^ Waxman, Deborah (January 30, 2018). "Why
837-610: The sniffim. Each snif (branch) has an equal voice and vote. The official ideology of Netzer Olami is set out in the Netzer Olami Platform , which was last changed in 2016. The Netzer symbol was designed in Melbourne, Australia, by Daniel (Danny) L. Schiff. American Jewish Historical Society The American Jewish Historical Society ( AJHS ) was founded in 1892 with the mission to foster awareness and appreciation of American Jewish history and to serve as
868-907: The time in the early 2000s was the vulnerability of the Jewish communities of Argentina, which was going through a serious social, economic and political crisis. The embryo of the organization was conceived in 2002 in São Paulo, by activists from liberal communities of Brazil, who chose that city as the regional headquarters of the organization. As of June 2020, UJR-AmLat has 26 affiliated communities, being one Rabbinical Institute , one Jewish School (both in Buenos Aires ), two youth movements (affiliated to Netzer Olami ) in São Paulo, and 22 synagogues in Brazil , Argentina , Chile , Ecuador , Peru , Costa Rica , and Guatemala . There are also, Arzenu –
899-561: Was established in London in 1926 as the Union of all Progressive (also Liberal or Reform) movements. It moved its headquarters to New York in 1959, and to Jerusalem in 1973. In 1990, the Reconstructionists – who espouse a philosophy different from that of the former – joined the WUPJ under an observer status, being the first and only non-Reform member. The WUPJ has regional offices in London, Moscow, and New York City. As of 2021
930-776: Was founded in 1997. The first new branch established by the WUPJ was in the Netherlands, in 1931, eventually coalescing into the Nederlands Verbond voor Progressief Jodendom . The movement is growing in Spain. As of 2016 there are six congregations, while there was only one congregation a decade ago. In 2017 the Reform community there expects to have its first native-born rabbi since the Expulsion in 1492 once he completes his rabbinical training in London. The WUPJ opened
961-534: Was the synagogue arm of Reconstructionist Judaism , serving more than 100 congregations and havurot spread across North America . In June 2012, the Reconstructionist movement underwent a restructuring that merged JRF with the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College to form a new national organization initially named RRC and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities . The merged organization was initially headed by Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz ,