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Female rabbi on healing Israel: Authority means service, not power - opinion

A woman rabbi in Israel reflects on leadership, feminism, and spiritual responsibility in a wounded nation

|ByRABBI TALIA AVNON-BENVENISTE
Six new Israeli Reform rabbis, all women, were ordained last year at the Hebrew Union College Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.
A Jewish woman covered in a white prayer shawl prays in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 2, 2018

Netanyahu’s coalition threatens Jewish unity with law banning pluralistic Kotel prayers - opinion

Under the bill, anyone who publicly leads or engages in prayer contrary to the Rabbinate’s directive would face up to seven years in jail.

|ByRABBI JACOB BLUMENTHAL/JTA, RABBI RICK JACOBS/JTA
A general view of Jerusalem's Old City shows the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in the foreground and the Dome of the Rock, located on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in the background June 24, 2019

It's time for the Western Wall to be a home for every Jew - opinion

The Western Wall belongs to every Jew, and it’s time Israel honors equality, pluralism, and shared heritage.

|ByYOCHI RAPPEPORT
A FAMILY prays at the section of the Kotel designated for non-Orthodox worship.

High Court grills state, Jerusalem over years-long holdup at egalitarian Western Wall Plaza

The “Kotel Agreement,” a compromise approved by the government in January 2016, has been systematically pushed and held up by the government and the Jerusalem municipality.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

First woman to work as a rabbi in Israel pursues her dreams

Kinneret Shiryon: Bringing her ideas to fruition.

NOVEMBER 26, 2021ByLEAH HAKIMIAN
Kinneret Shiryon

Dutch rabbi resigns after comparing COVID measures and Nazism

Tamarah Benima, 71, left the Dutch Union for Progressive Judaism on Nov. 9, the rabbinical council wrote in a statement.

NOVEMBER 13, 2021ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
Amsterdam

Pluralism is not Jewish? - Opinion

Many Jewish sources which favor unity are opposed to uniformity. Bemidbar Rabbah (13:15,16) for example, affirms that 'there are 70 faces to the Torah.'

NOVEMBER 10, 2021ByALAN SILVERSTEIN
World Zionist Organization chairman Yaakov Hagoel with newly elected President Isaac Herzog in July, at a ceremony in honor of Herzog’s departure as chairman of the Jewish Agency.

Does Israel funding Conservative, Reform Jews threaten Jewish identity? - opinion

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs minister today celebrates the funding of progressive groups and causes whose same antipathy for religion and tradition have decimated mainstream Judaism in America.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021ByMOSHE B. PARNES
American and Israeli Jews [Illustrative]

All streams of Judaism have beauty, Oded Revivi is right - opinion

The haredi viewpoint has beauty, as does that of the Reform Movement, of secular Judaism, and of the entire spectrum of Modern Orthodoxy

OCTOBER 28, 2021ByYIZHAR HESS
THE WRITER, at the time serving as CEO of the Masorti Movement in Israel, attends a High Court hearing in 2018 regarding egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.

Don't cancel Israeli rabbi for bridging gap with Reform Jews - opinion

We are allowed to disagree – the Talmud and Jewish tradition are replete with opposing views – but we should not boycott.

OCTOBER 21, 2021ByODED REVIVI
Eliezer Melamed: Our intention is not to make them religious, but, rather, to fight assimilation and strengthen Jewish identity.

MK Tal calls on Minister Kahana to open kashrut to Reform, Conservative rabbis

Blue and White MK says excluding non-Orthodox rabbis from new kashrut system is ‘insulting’ and spits in the face of Reform and Conservative Jews.

OCTOBER 7, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
Prof. Alon Tal: Keeping us cleaner

Conservative movement to investigate sexual abuse allegations

Following allegations of sexual abuse, the Conservative movement announced it would implement new safety measures and investigate how program officials have handled complaints.

AUGUST 18, 2021ByASAF SHALEV/JTA
USY members celebrate at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's 2015 convention.

Leader of Reform Jewry Richard Hirsch dies in Florida at 95

Hirsch was eulogized by President Isaac Herzog who said he was deeply saddened to learn of Hirsch’s passing.

AUGUST 17, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch 311

Non-Orthodox Judaism brings a needed service to Am Yisrael - opinion

We must ask ourselves what we would gain by rejecting converts from non-Orthodox streams of Judaism.

AUGUST 12, 2021ByASHER MAOZ
On June 11, at the Western Wall, 39 Women of the Wall prayer books were grabbed, torn up, and destroyed.