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Banning anti-Zionist rabbis is the enlightened and liberal position - opinion

Enlightenment philosophers envisioned open, tolerant societies. But they understood that a community without boundaries is as doomed as a language without grammar.

 Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference on May 31, 2023
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My Word: When pride meets prejudice - opinion

People wave Iranian flags and signs condemning the war on Iran as they march past the Eisenhower Executive Building during a protest in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2026.

Iranian expats face the same awakening Jews felt after October 7 - opinion

Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir walks inside the Knesset, on the day US President Donald Trump delivers remarks, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025.

Moral, legal issues with Israel’s terrorist death penalty - opinion


Yesh Atid joins Liberal International

Yesh Atid officials said there has been added international interest in the party since its success in deposing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

MK YAIR LAPID at Yesh Atid meeting on August 2, 2021

The fracturing of liberal Judaism over Jewish particularism - opinion

The growing inclination among liberal Jews to deemphasize Jewish distinctiveness is the gravest threat to the future of liberal Judaism.

AMERICAN RABBIS from the Reform and Conservative movements hold a group prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Stand up for true liberalism or bow down to fascism - opinion

No progress ever stems from lies, violence and cowardice. What elevates and what destroys is the question that every generation has faced, and right now we are allowing the destroyers free rein.

A newsstand in Manhattan outfitted with ‘Fake News’ headlines was a stunt by the ‘Columbia Journalism Review,’ in October 2018.

Beit Hillel founder Rabbi Ronen Neuwirth dies at 50

"A brilliant scholar who connected Torah and action, love and awe… who worked with all his might to endear the Torah to Israeli society."

Beit Hillel founder Rabbi Ronen Neuwirth

Why the Left struggles on the Israel question - opinion

The core root of these perceptions, I suggest, centers on three all-encompassing themes.

FOUNDING PRIME MINISTER David Ben-Gurion in conversation with US president John F. Kennedy, 1961

‘Soros’ documentary gets negative reviews

Soros, 90, the Jewish Holocaust survivor and billionaire hedge fund manager, is known for his prolific giving to human rights groups and liberal causes around the world.

Business magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London, Britain June 20, 2016

Rabbis in UK allow interfaith couples to get married under a chuppah

In adopting the new policy, Liberal Judaism became the first Jewish movement in the United Kingdom to permit the chuppah to be used at an interfaith ceremony.

A bride and groom kiss under the chuppah at their wedding

Liberal Jewish groups back ADL after progressive coalition attack

Liberal Jewish organizations that have worked with the ADL are publicly defending its record as a Jewish civil rights organization with a long track record of standing up for marginalized communities

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.

Ruth Gavison's commitment to liberal nationalism is lasting legacy

“We must find ways to live together, not necessarily to decide in favor of one or another direction.”

Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor Ruth Gavison speaks in the Knesset in 2017.

Despite pressure, no major changes to Democratic platform on Israel

There were nods to calls for the platform to more equitably treat the Palestinians than it has in the past.

US President Joe Biden gestures after disembarking from a plane upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel March 8, 2016