The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), is an organization which supports
Reform Jewish congregations in
North America. The current President is Rabbi
Eric H. Yoffie, and the Chairman of the Board is Robert M. Heller.The origins of the URJ began with the founding of the UAHC by Rabbi
Isaac Mayer Wise in 1873, based at
Cincinnati, Ohio. At the time it consisted of 34 congregations. In 1950, the UAHC relocated its headquarters to
New York City. In 2003, the UAHC was officially renamed the Union for Reform Judaism by the General Assembly at the organization's Biennial Convention. The former name was dropped because it reflected Wise's unrealized expectation that the whole of American Jewry would eventually affiliate with the Reform movement, and also because it failed to acknowledge the Reform-affiliated congregations outside the
United States. Today, the organization is often referred to simply As "the Union." As of 2005, some 900
synagogues were affiliated with it.
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