How long do I remain a Reform Jew if the institutions of Reform Judaism stray into territories that are untenable for me ideologically? This past week, the Reform movement’s seminary, the Hebrew ...
Reform rabbis have never been prohibited from intermarrying. The institutions follow a norm among American Jews, who have increasingly intermarried over recent decades, according to a 2020 Pew survey.
His passing during this moment of Jewish, Zionist, and liberal crisis is particularly painful. A Reform rabbi who wrote a path-breaking book titled Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a ...
In searching for a place to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar ...
20 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 94. The longtime rabbi of Pittsburgh’s Rodef Shalom Congregation, a Reform synagogue, Jacob descended from a line of rabbis in Germany that extended back 400 ...
In a heartfelt interview with Globes, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the North American Reform Movement, expressed deep disappointment over the growing rift between progressive Jewish communities ...