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


An Ohio rabbi’s misconduct involved a child. No one told his congregants

A photo showing Rabbi David Komerofsky and Rabbi Jon Adland a year into Komerofsky's employment took new meaning after Adland was named in a sexual misconduct report.

A suburb of Cleveland, Ohio [Illustrative]

Tensions will be high at Kotel for Rosh Hodesh service on Friday

Reform and Conservative movements are expected to march toward the Western Wall while Haredim are arranging protests.

ANAT HOFFMAN (center), director of Women of the Wall, speaks to reporters at the Kotel yesterday.

Bennett meets Reform and Conservative leaders 

MK Gilad Kariv said he hopes the meeting leads to a building proper egalitarian prayer site at the Kotel in the months ahead.

 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 27, 2022.

Israel's Chief Rabbinate needs the courage to reform - opinion

Seventy years of religious repression, civil marriage and intermarriage have brought many people of Jewish descent to Israel who are not halachically Jewish.

 RELIGIOUS SERVICES Minister Matan Kahana sits next to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a session in the Knesset plenum earlier this month.

Religion state reforms will strengthen halacha - opinion

Modifications to kashrut and conversion systems represent a key opportunity to address critical issues in Jewish practice that demand change.

 ISRAEL’S SEPHARDI Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a rally against Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana’s conversion and kashrut reforms plan, at the International Convention Center, on February 1.

An accepting attitude: The real conversion reform we need - opinion

There is one key point that has been overlooked amid all the bickering: our attitude toward those who do choose to convert, which is no less in need of improvement.

 YOUNG CHINESE men study Torah in Yeshivat Hamivtar in Gush Etzion, preparing for their Orthodox conversion.

Reform Jewry's hidden agenda with the Western Wall now revealed - opinion

The huge motivation to attain legitimacy for new streams in Judaism, especially at the Western Wall, is clear to me. But at what price?

 THE MASSES pray at the Western Wall during Sukkot.

The Western Wall partition won't bring Diaspora Jewry closer to Israel - opinion

There is a plan in the Knesset to partition the Western Wall and establish a plaza for mixed prayer.

 A CONFRONTATION takes place at a service with Women of the Wall at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

American reform rabbis group finds late rabbi ducked abuse complaints

Rabbi Michael Cook resigned from the CCAR to avoid investigation into abuse claims against him.

Rabbi Michael Cook teaches a class at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 2016.

Bill to abolish income test for disabled IDF veterans passes 1st reading

A bill to abolish the income test for disabled IDF veterans passed its first reading as part of the “One Soul” reform program.

A protest by disabled IDF veterans in Tel Aviv, April 18, 2021