Reform jews

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
A panoramic view of the Mount of Olives

High Court orders state to explain failure to establish civil cemetery for Jerusalem residents

Finchley Reform Synagogue, in north London, pictured in 2006.

Two arrested for connection to attempted arson of London's Finchley Reform Synagogue

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


Reform rabbis gather for NYC conference to cement Reform Jewish values

Reform Judaism conference in New York addresses issues of Jewish Peoplehood, Zionism and the disappearance of conversion ceremonies in the movement

 Looking south across West 68th Street at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. (May 2011)

Do Reform leaders really believe in free speech and open debate? - opinion

If the leaders of liberal groups speak out against shutting down those who do not agree with them, there is hope for democracy.

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the JFNA General Assembly, 2022.

MK Simcha Rothman met with protests at Jewish Agency meeting

One of the main demonstrators was Rabbi Lea Mühlstein, the International Chair of Arzenu, which represents Reform and Progressive Jewry.

 Rabbi Lea Mühlstein

Two of UK’s progressive Jewish movements announced a merger

Reform Judaism sees itself as a movement that is traditional but up-to-date with modernity. Liberal Judaism in the UK is quite similar but has become more radical and modern.

 Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy.

Chikli dialogues with US Jewish orgs. about judicial overhaul

Chikli enlightened the listeners on what is going on behind the scenes toward a compromise to the judicial overhaul.

 Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the Democracy 2023 conference.

The Diaspora Affairs Ministry should not neglect concerns of Jews abroad - editorial

The readiness to listen to Jewish communities – as the minister said – is important but it cannot just be about their needs when it comes to education and Hebrew studies within their communities.

 DIASPORA AFFAIRS Minister Amichai Chikli arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Chikli responded to Diaspora criticism of the judicial reform by stating: ‘Mind your own business.’

Reform and Conservative Jews feel discrimination in Israel - Jewish Agency chairman

Why do Reform and Conservative Jews feel unappreciated in Israel?

 REFORM JEWS hold up broken hearts as they demonstrate outside the Knesset in 1997 against pending legislation by ultra-religious parties to tighten their grip on conversion issues.

Western Wall compromise: Israel's High Court to hold hearing

This is the first hearing taking place on the issue in the past two years and the first during this government. 

Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movement  hold Rosh Hodesh prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022.

Reform rabbis hold prayers at Kotel, Noam Party activists protest in egal section

Chaos broke out across the Kotel as Women of the Wall held prayer services in the main plaza and Noam Party activists took over the egalitarian section.

 MK Gilad Kariv holds a Torah Scroll during Rosh Hodesh prayer of women of the wall, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, February 22, 2023.

3 million liberal, non-Orthodox Jews vilified by Israel's haredim - opinion

Liberal Jews study Torah and read Jewish books and send their kids to religious schools just like Jews around the world. But they have been vilified by haredim and persecuted by the Chief Rabbinate.

 ANAT HOFFMAN holds a Torah scroll at a Western Wall prayer service on the occasion of Rosh Hodesh. The very people who have turned the Kotel into a battleground are now crying foul, says the writer.