“The question before us is the same one that splintered the Reform movement a century ago and almost broke us. Are we truly committed to Jewish peoplehood? If so, what are our obligations flowing from ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — As president of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Andrew Rehfeld has met many prospective rabbinical students. Yet he still remembers a ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — The ...

NEW YORK -- As a rabbinic student in 1980s New York, Denise Eger lived away from other seminarians. She quietly started a group for fellow gay and lesbian students but held meetings in another borough ...

Israeli lawmaker David Rotem, who heads an influential Knesset committee, said the Reform movement “is not Jewish.” Rotem, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, and a member ...

Jewish organizations across the ideological spectrum offered cautious optimism following the announcement of the first phase ...

More than a third of American Jews identify with the Reform movement, making the URJ’s pledge one of the highest-profile climate actions ever taken by a Jewish organization. (JTA) — The organization ...

Rabbi Lance Sussman is a well-known figure in the American Reform Jewish movement, particularly at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, where he served as rabbi for more than two ...

Naftuli Moster spent a decade as an activist accusing haredi Orthodox yeshivas of denying students a basic education and the tools needed to become independent adults. He later launched a muckraking ...