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Michigan Democrat El-Sayed challenged by 250 rabbis on Israel in nationwide push by liberal Jews

Student organizer Jacob Reich, who is involved in various Democratic Party initiatives on and off campus, told JTA: “I felt torn between both my Jewish identity and my identity as a Democrat.” 

Rabbi Alana Alpert sits in her home for portrait on November 06, 2022 in Detroit, Michigan. "Let's talk about universal health care, comprehensive sex education, paid parental leave, ending rape culture, law enforcement that doesn't murder innocent people..."
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks, September 14, 2026; illustrative

Mamdani calls for end to Israeli 'occupation, genocide' after IDF detains volunteers in West Bank

A view of "Kol Haneshama" synagogue building in Jerusalem on July 8, 2013.

Herzog voices solidarity with Jerusalem Reform synagogue after repeated attacks

A view of "Kol Haneshama" synagogue building in Jerusalem on July 8, 2013.

Jerusalem egalitarian synagogue vandalized again on Yom Kippur, pride flag stolen


In a twist, German rabbi at scandal’s center cedes rabbinical school ownership to Berlin Jews

Rabbi Walter Homolka faced allegations of sexual harassment scandal involving his husband, who was also his employee.

Rabbi Walter Homolka

Historic church being housed by a synagogue gets green light for restoration

A relationship has blossomed between the synagogue and the church, which has remained homeless due to the six-alarm fire that destroyed most of the building in 2020.

Star of David stained-glass window in the Wales synagogue

Fighting Israel’s new extremist politics with Maccabean determination - opinion

Loud voices within the new Israeli government are distinguished by their hatred for those who are not like them, the author argues.

 Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks about combating racism at the Reform Biennial in Chicago, Dec. 12, 2019.

Reconstructionist Judaism moves to back reparations for African Americans

Representatives of 47 congregations voted in support of a resolution that endorsed reparations for Black Americans. 11 abstained and none voted against.

 Rabbi Deborah Waxman is president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism.

Jewish people from all over the world are family, we are family - opinion

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef called Conservative and Reform Judaism a "new religion," earlier this month.

 SEPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef delivers an address. ‘I feel that it’s important for me to remind Rabbi Yosef that Israel was established to bring Jews in the Diaspora close to her, not to ostracize them,’ says the writer.

Why your synagogue, and mine, needs a pickleball court - opinion

Pickleball, the subject of countless breathless articles calling it the fastest growing sport in America, is essentially tennis for people with terrible knees.

 Boaz Lazarus-Klein, 12, awaits a return during a pickleball match at Congregation Shir Shalom near Buffalo, New York, where his father Alexander is the rabbi.

Battle lines deepen in bruising fight for control of Germany’s liberal Jewish institutions

It is virtually assured that yet more slings and arrows will fly before all is said and done - the UPJ could even break apart.

POTSDAM UNIVERSITY – ‘the new nucleus of Jewish Studies in Germany.’

He’Brew maker Shmaltz Brewing relaunches with new owner: a rabbinical student

Jewish craft beer label, best known for its He’Brew: The Chosen Beer line of drinks, shut down last year after 25 years. Jesse Epstein, a rabbinical student.

 Various beer bottles by Shmaltz Brewery on display in an exhibition on "Jewish brewing stories" at the Jewish Museum in Munich, Germany, April 11, 2016.

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Reform, Conservative Judaism is a new religion

"Have you ever seen a Reformer [Jew] who repented? I didn't see any, there are none. They feel they are okay; that they have a religion, but they have a new religion."

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

UTJ demands ‘deterrence’ of egalitarian prayer at Western Wall – report

Party will demand to enact ‘serious steps’ to deter people who ‘desecrate the holy place’ by not acting according to the rabbinate and the Kotel rabbi.

 Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands with United Torah Judaism MK Yitzchak Goldknopf a plenum session in the assembly hall of the parliament (Knesset) on November 21, 2022.