Goals of Reform Jewish Education

These goals provide an ever-present focus for the URJ/CCAR curricular guidelines:

Jews who affirm their Jewish identity and bind themselves inseparably to their people by word and by deed.
Jews who bear witness to the brit (the covenant between God and the Jewish people) through the practice of mitzvot (commandments) as studied in Torah and the classic Jewish literature it has generated, and interpreted in light of historic development and contemporary liberal thought.
Jews who affirm their historic bond to Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel.
Jews who cherish and study Hebrew, the language of the Jewish people.
Jews who value and practice tefillah (prayer).
Jews who further the causes of justice, freedom and peace by pursuing tzedek (righteousness), mishpat (justice) and chesed (loving deeds).
Jews who celebrate Shabbat and the festivals and observe the Jewish ceremonies marking the significant occasions in their lives.
Jews who esteem their own person and the person of others; their own family and the family of others; their own community and the community of others.
Jews who express kinship with Klal Yisrael by actively seeking the welfare of Jews throughout the world.
Jews who support and participate in the life of the synagogue.
Jews who sense the purpose and destiny of the Jewish people through the continuity and change of our traditions through time.