Women share their journeys of faith for Interfaith Season
03/15/2017 12:58:00 PM
"Virginia Hecker shared her personal experience of moving from a Jewish majority in Detroit to a Jewish minority in Salt Lake City.
Hecker wasn’t raised in a particularly religious family — they were mostly Jewish by culture only. However, when she moved to Utah, she found a book about what Jews believe and she decided to study it.
“Being a good Jew is about living a good life,” Hecker said."
Utah Congregation praying for homeless children this weekend
02/04/2016 12:56:31 PM
"MIDVALE — More than 30 Utah faith communities will offer prayers this weekend in support of homeless children, reflecting on a crisis that policymakers, service organizations and religious leaders are working together to solve.
"Homelessness and hopelessness can go hand in hand, but they do not have to," said Rabbi Ilana Schwartzman from Congregation Kol Ami, during a Thursday press conference at the Road Home Midvale Center about the "Ending Child Homelessness Sabbath."
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Unique menorahs make Hanukkah special for many Jewish families
12/23/2015 12:55:10 PM
"Nearly 70 of the youngest members of Utah's Jewish community descended on Home Depot last Sunday afternoon, donning small, orange aprons as they made their way to paint-splattered tables."
President Uchtdorf calls for peace at "Volkstrauertag" gathering
11/15/2015 12:53:37 PM
"President Dieter F. Uchtdorf knows first-hand what it means to be a refugee. Twice during his childhood — during World War II and, later, the Cold War — he experienced the fear and uncertainty of being displaced from his homeland."
Women's Assembly re-imagines traditions at Parliament of the World's Religions
10/18/2015 12:52:43 PM
"Maeera Yaffa Shreiber, a University of Utah professor, author and a lay leader at Congregation Kol Ami, said she recently attended an Orthodox Hasidic synagogue for the final of a sequence of Jewish holidays, which concludes with the Day of Celebrating the Torah."
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