{"id":234894,"date":"2010-01-26T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2376"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:33:07","slug":"webinar-engaging-young-adults-through-social-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234894","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Engaging Young Adults Through Social Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young adults often gravitate toward congregations and organizations that engage in meaningful social action work and prioritize social justice advocacy, as evidenced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfty.org\/\">North American Federation of Temple Youth<\/a>&#8216;s strong emphasis on social action and by the attendance every year of&nbsp;more than 2,000 high school students to the Religious Action Center&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rac.org\/ltaken\"><em>L&#8217;Taken <\/em>Social Justice Seminars<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, the Union for Reform Judaism will host a webinar titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.gotomeeting.com\/register\/203905113\">&#8220;Making a Difference: Engaging Young Adults Through Social Action,&#8221;<\/a> featuring Naomi Abelson, URJ Social Action Specialist, &amp; Lisa Lieberman Barzilai, URJ Young Adult Specialist, who will explore successful congregational models and best practices. Whether you&#8217;re a rabbi, an educator or a youth group leader, this webinar will provide you with the tools to&nbsp;take these ideas home to your own community. <\/p>\n<p>Guest speakers will include Rabbi Taron Tachman from Temple Sholom of Chicago, IL and Pastor Keenan Barber and Chum Wongrassamee of Bel Air Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, CA. Guest speakers will discuss best practices and provide insight into their own experiences with engaging youth in social justice work.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Webinar:<\/strong> &#8220;Making a Difference: Engaging Young Adults Through Social Action&#8221;<br \/><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, January 28, 2010<br \/><strong>Time:<\/strong> 8:00PM &#8211; 9:00PM EST<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.gotomeeting.com\/register\/203905113\">RSVP for the webinar now.<\/a> After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young adults often gravitate toward congregations and organizations that engage in meaningful social action work and prioritize social justice advocacy, as evidenced by the North American Federation of Temple Youth&#8216;s strong emphasis on social action and by the attendance every year of&nbsp;more than 2,000 high school students to the Religious Action Center&#8217;s L&#8217;Taken Social Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}