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A woman 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

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

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

 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


Two rabbis from different denominations get a second chance at love

Though Wallk is a Conservative rabbi and Cohn is Reform, they quickly realized they had much in common. Both loved prayer, and each had worked on revamping their movements’ new prayerbooks.

 Nether Rabbi Amy Wallk nor Rabbi Mark Cohn had been looking for a relationship when they first met at the Shalom Hartman Institute in 2017

France has 500,000 Jews but only 5 women rabbis. A growing movement is pushing to change that.

In France, there are only five female rabbis in a country with over half a million Jews.

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US revokes visa of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu

A source close to Eliyahu also told the Post that the rabbi was summoned to the US embassy, asked to give over his passport and then his visa was taken out and the passport returned.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends to the funeral of Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Koenig in Safed on December 31, 2018.

This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon be the star of her own reality TV show

Rebecca Eisenstadt and her shih-poo, Scout, can be found shuttling between the Upper East Side homes of her 40 tween students — or “Jewdents,” as she calls them.

 Eisenstadt is a non-denominational Rabbi, and while she keeps Kosher, she describes her observance as "hipsterdox."

Shuly Rubin Schwartz inaugurated as first woman chancellor of JTS

“My goal is to offer a nuanced educational approach that prepares future leaders to share Judaism’s riches," said Shuly Rubin Schwartz in a speech.

 Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz delivers her inaugural address as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary at the institution's Manhattan campus, May 17, 2022.

Hebrew Union College to end Cincinnati rabbinical program amid controversy

The decision comes after years of declining revenue and enrollment at the school — and months of bitter debate across the Reform community.

 The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019. Under a new proposal, HUC is considering ending its rabbinical program in Cincinnati but maintaining the archives.

Tensions will be high at Kotel for Rosh Hodesh service on Friday

Reform and Conservative movements are expected to march toward the Western Wall while Haredim are arranging protests.

ANAT HOFFMAN (center), director of Women of the Wall, speaks to reporters at the Kotel yesterday.

US Reform movement’s youth director accused of sexual misconduct in youth programs

Allegations shared with investigators ranged from verbal sexual harassment and unwelcome sexual advances to sexual touching and sexual assault.

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Pluralist streams set to clash with Bennett

Smotrich says he is glad Reform movement losing support in the US

 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Minister of Public Security Omer Barlev, Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai and Head of the Northern Command Police District Shimon Lavie seen during a ceremony after the largest ever police operation against illegal gun dealers, in Tel Aviv, November 9, 2021.

'I am grateful to be alive,' says Colleyville rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker

Meet the rabbi who was one of four people taken hostage on Saturday in Colleyville, Texas • “I bonded with him,” and "really like him," the hostage-taker said.

 Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, where four hostages were held.