Reform

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
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019.

As Ohio again tries to block Hebrew Union College’s restructuring, a new rabbinical school emerges

EVEN BEZALEL Smotrich’s rivals agree that he is a smart man who studies complex issues quickly and knows how to make decisions. Here, the finance minister leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on Monday.

Middle Israel: Smotrich’s crushing Knesset defeat exposes the finance minister's limits - opinion

Reuven Taub, Co-founder and CEO of “Alenu – the Founding Grandchildren"

Why the world wants to learn from Israel’s healthcare, but not our schools - opinion


Public organizations protest regulation reform in letter to Knesset

The letter written to the Knesset joins ministers in protest against the reduction of regulation.

Cabinet meeting on August 2 where the budget was approved

Leader of Reform Jewry Richard Hirsch dies in Florida at 95

Hirsch was eulogized by President Isaac Herzog who said he was deeply saddened to learn of Hirsch’s passing.

Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch 311

Protesting Israeli farmers damage Lebanon border fence

Farmers demonstrating against planned agricultural reforms damaged the border fence with Lebanon.

 Farmers protest along border with Lebanon, August 17, 2021

Reform movement investigating itself over rabbinic sexual misconduct

After a series of high-profile revelations about sexual misconduct within its ranks, the world’s largest Jewish denomination initiated investigations into how it has dealt with allegations.

Portrait of Russian Jalena Rubinstein, the first reform female rabbi

A time of hope, reform to heal Israel's religious divides - opinion

While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its resolution occupies the attention of the outside world, it is the fissures in Israeli society that are of growing concern.

MK MOSHE GAFNI is removed from the Knesset plenum by a security guard earlier this week.

New Progressive Judaism Dept. established in Diaspora Affairs Ministry

Minister Nachman Shai has secured NIS 40 million for various projects for non-Orthodox, progressive groups • ministry budget is doubled

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

Does calling someone a 'pig' sound different in Yiddish?

Porush meant that Reform Judaism is dangerous because Reform Jews “show” some Jewish practices but do not observe “all” of them.

Ultra-Orthodox worshippers pray on Tisha Be’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, at the Western Wall on July 18, 2021.

Israel's flood of economic reforms is exciting, but won't come easy

with so many big changes being rolled out so quickly, it is reasonable to wonder how much of this will actually happen.

Yisrael Beytenu MK Avigdor Liberman.

Liberman's structural reforms: Infrastructure, bureaucracy and cannabis

Israel has not had a state budget since mid-2018 due to political gridlock, and Liberman has stressed that passing a budget by November is his top priority.

AVIGDOR LIBERMAN arrives at the Knesset ahead of the vote and swearing in of the 36th government, June 13, 2021.

Israel needs dignified discourse in the Knesset - editorial

In a country as diverse as Israel, where good people who care about the future have sincere differences and widely varying views, a modicum of respect and decency in discourse is imperative.

ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE between Israel’s electoral system and that of most other Western democracies is the lack of any direct connection between the people who gain a seat in the Knesset and ordinary Israeli voters.