Posts Tagged: Reform movement
Are Jews Obligated to Support Reparations for African-Americans?
JNS.org - When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates made “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic in June 2014, few thought his idea had merit or had a...
Netanyahu Reaches Deal to Delay Controversial Conversion Bill by Six Months
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday that he has reached a deal to delay the country's controversial conversion bill by six months...
Modern Orthodox Education Caught Between…Modern and Orthodox
JNS.org - When the Pew Research Center published its much-discussed survey of American Jews in 2013, the findings seemed auspicious for the Orthodox denomination. Orthodox Jews...
Reform and Conservative Jewish Movements Welcome Scouting Back Into Fold
JNS.org - At the recent Union for Reform Judaism biennial convention, the staff and delegates were audaciously hospitable to the National Jewish Committee on Scouting. This...
Reform Rabbinical Authority Appoints Openly Gay President
JNS.org - Rabbi Denise Eger, the founding rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami in Los Angeles, is being installed Monday as the first openly gay...
Reform Movement, Ruderman Family Foundation Launch Synagogue Inclusion Initiative
JNS.org - The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, and Ruderman Family Foundation announced a new initiative to foster...
Book: American Jews Are Endangered Species
JNS.org - Let the general reader be warned: Shaul Magid's new book, "American Post-Judaism," is not easy to read. The writing is dense, and the...
Reform Leader Sees GA as Synergy of Federation and Synagogue Worlds (INTERVIEW)
BALTIMORE—Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the Reform movement's congregational arm, was an atypical choice as scholar-in-residence for the 2012 Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA)...
Reform Leader Seeks to ‘Go Beyond Denominations’
During a recent visit to three synagogues (two Reform, one Orthodox) on eastern Long Island, Rabbi David Ellenson, PhD—president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish...
