Hebrew Union College

There were two points very early on when I nearly gave up reading Lawrence Kushner’s I’m God, You’re Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other…

Rabbi Sivan Maas says she will never forget the Yom Kippur service she attended at the Birmingham Congregation Temple in Chicago in 1980. “It was a…

The Reform movement’s cantorial school has been named for the late Debbie Friedman. Rabbi David Ellenson, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish…

LOS ANGELES – Famous for its warm, sunny weather, densely packed freeways and the landmark hilltop Hollywood sign, this is one of the most populated…

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“Thy destroyers and thy demolishers shall emerge from within thee.” – Isaiah 49:17 “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews; you are talking…

Binyamin Netanyahu became the first prime minister to formally and publicly request the release of Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard, sending a letter…

31 FRIDAY MUSIC New Years Eve Party – With Blaze House Rock, the house band, with rock from the’50s – ‘90s. • 10 p.m. at the Blaze Live Rock Bar, 23…

The history of the menora begins with biblical artisan Bezalel, who created the first lamp for use in the Tabernacle. Exodus 25:31 provided…

SAN FRANCISCO -- After the Reform movement broadcast online its first session devoted to reassessing itself, in mid-November, the comments poured…

“DO YOU LIKE Gypsies?” asks pretty, dark-skinned Lilah, fixing back a twist of her hair with a hairpin. “I don’t. Gypsies are bad. Gypsies are…

‘ATalmudic saying states that the Divine presence always rests above an invalid’s bed,” says Chani Kroizer, head and founder of the spiritual support…

Biblical scholars have now had 60 years to research the scrolls hidden in caves close to the Dead Sea Qumran settlement. The question of which Jews…

Since 2002, the annual figure for aliya from North America has almost doubled, from 2,040 olim in 2002 to 3,750 over the past 12 months, according to…

SAN FRANCISCO – On a recent weekday, Rivka Bowlin led mincha, the afternoon prayer service, from her home in Louisville, Ky. Her fellow worshipers…

There were a lot of rabbis at the Western Wall last Wednesday – mostly on the women’s side. The monthly gathering of the Women of the Wall (WOW) for…

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE the North American Jewish community has been so united on an issue involving Israel. Just when it seemed that the Jewish…

Chelsea Clinton’s recent nuptials have caused quite a stir. When the Methodist daughter of the former US president stepped under a huppa (Jewish…

The invective swirling around the proposed Israeli conversion legislation runs amok. It “spits in the face of Diaspora Jewry,” says an American non-…

Famed architect Moshe Safdie, whose projects in the capital include the Mamilla Arlov Promenade leading to the Old City’s Jaffa Gate, will downsize…