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Happy autumn everyone! Perfect time for sitting among colorful leaves, reflecting on 2015, and planning for your upcoming year. Last month DC/SLA members elected Blane Dessy (President-Elect), Jack Dale (Recording Secretary), Lois Ireland (Program Director...

The recording of our Joint Cabinet special meeting is now available on the SLA Leadership Webinar list. Because the system crashed a few minutes into the meeting, the recording is in two segments: Segment One of the Meeting Segment Two of the Meeting...

We invite all SLA members to hear our candidates and make choices about our future leadership. SLA elections are coming up in September.   Mark your calendars and register now to participate in the live program, or plan to listen to the recording before...

This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. The Jewish Reconstruction Synagogue in Evanston, Illinois is looking for a new rabbi. Rabbi Brant Rosen is moving on...

November 8 In History 30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his Flavian predecessors. 641: “Jews were...