“’What is the difference between Liberal and Reform Judaism’ has therefore become a question that our rabbis, cantors, lay leaders and even PR people struggle to answer,” the new alliance’s co-CEO’s ...

Gone is the stylized menorah, variations of which have represented the Union for Reform Judaism for at least 50 years. Also scrapped are the stylized Hebrew letters for chai, or living, the longtime ...

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(RNS) — It has been a foreboding few weeks in Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest, most powerful force in American Jewish life, was there to witness much ...

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 ...

The move onto the Muss campus is the latest in the Reform movement’s reduction in physical space to cut costs and respond to shrinking enrollment numbers. (JTA) — The Reform movement is folding its ...

Changing the system isn’t new. It’s been happening for centuries, in unexpected places. Eleanor Roosevelt started writing “all men are born free.” Then, Hansa Mehta, an Indian freedom fighter, changed ...

But the Israel-Gaza war that started Oct. 7 spotlighted rifts among liberal Jews about not just how to address Israel’s military campaign but also about what the word Zionism means and how core a ...

(JTA) — In a major development for British Jewry, the United Kingdom’s Liberal and Reform Jewish movements are joining to create a unified Progressive Judaism movement after working separately for ...