Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness

Are you attending UUA's General Assembly in June in Pittsburgh? UUJA is providing an online Workshop at GA on Friday, 6/23 at 12:30 pm & our Annual Shabbat Service at 5:30 pm.
If you're attending GA in person & willing to be a reader or musician in our Shabbat Service, contact me at board@uuja.org.

Please consider donating to UUJA

Great news! UUJA has been selected to present “The Spiritual Practice of Mussar” (online webinar) at General Assembly on Friday, June 23rd at 12:30 pm EDT. If you’re registered for GA (on-site or online), click here for the schedule. This 1 ½ hour program by Revs. Marti Keller, Jay Wolin & Alison Miller will introduce Mussar with facilitated breakout rooms to support deeper discussion.
Shabbat Services at GA will be held on Friday, June 23rd at 5:30 pm EDT and streamed over Facebook Live. Be sure to tune in!

Are you attending GA in Pittsburgh? UUJA needs helpers for our Shabbat Service as readers & musicians, as well as booth ambassadors to talk about UUJA. Contact Robin Kottman to sign up– kottmanrobin@gmail.com.

Our calendar of upcoming 2023-2024 UUJA events will be available at GA (and online post-GA)! This includes our quarterly Shabbat Services, online Mussar Study Groups and NEW book discussion group on important Jewish topics (antisemitism and more).

To continue providing this programming to you, we’re asking for your support – in any amount that fits your budget.
To donate, click here. Thank you for your support!

With gratitude,

Your UUJA Board

Shabbat shalom, dear friends, and a reminder that the UUJA sermon contest deadline is THIS MONDAY!

2023 Denny & Jerry Davidoff Semon Award:
Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness (UUJA) is seeking entries for the seventh Denny & Jerry Davidoff Sermon Award. One prize of $500 will be awarded for a sermon preached in January 2020- April 2023.
Entrants can be UU ministerial aspirants, candidates and ordained ministers, other UU religious professionals (Religious Education Professionals, Music Directors, etc) and lay members of congregations.
Inspired by recent events in the US, this year's UUJA annual sermon award theme is:
The Oldest Hate
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported that in 2021 incidents of Anti-Semitic violence, harassment, and vandalism was at an all-time high, with 2,717 incidents reported. This is an average increase of seven incidents per day and a 34 percent increase of incidents year over year since the ADL began tracking these incidents in 1979. What can UUism do as a movement to address this issue within and outside of our association?
The award is named in honor of the late Denny & Jerry Davidoff, early members of this group, who were instrumental in helping lift up the often overlooked Jewish presence in our religious movement. UUJA offers resources to those interested in Jewish issues, celebrations and heritage, either personally or on behalf of congregations.
Sermons will need to have been delivered between January 2020- April 2023
Entries should be submitted via e-mail in Word or RTF document formats.
Please send all submissions to UUJA Board member Arthur Thexton at athexton@hotmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2023
Winner will be announced concurrent with the 2023 UU General Assembly, Honorable Mentions will be awarded as appropriate at that time.

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