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The Texas State Capitol photographed on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 in Austin.

Texas Jews split as lawmakers sign off on $1B private school voucher program

By Grace Gilson

New York, NY USA - April 20, 2024 : Protesters waving Palestinian flags and sign at a demonstration near Columbia University Medical Center at the Plaza de las Americas in Washington Heights, New York

‘The end of the two-state solution hope in my lifetime,' says US Reform rabbi

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MK Gilad Kariv attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on October 15, 2024.

Aliyah committee will be ‘home’ for non-Orthodox Jewish denominations, Kariv says

By ELIAV BREUER

Rabbi Sam Rose criticizes US government policies during an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at the University of South Carolina, Jan. 27, 2025, in Columbia, South Carolina. Rose's speech was later cut from the broadcast's archive.

Rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech pulled from TV for being 'too political'

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Naot owners Steve and Susan Lax, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue Senior Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, Naot CEO Moshe Marie.

Rabbi Hirsch: Reform movement wants to be present in rebuilding of Israel

By MICHAEL STARR

US Vice President Kamala Harris (R) participates in a ceremonial swearing-in with Sen. Elissa Slotkin, as her father Curt holds a Jewish text at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 3, 2025.

Elissa Slotkin sworn into Senate on Reform movement women’s Torah commentary

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

Reform Jews in a prayer service for Israel at a Los Gatos CA temple.

Over 5,000 Reform Jews call on Trump to 'lead with integrity and compassion'

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Rabbi Rick Jacobs at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv.

Jewish Reform leader expresses disappointment in society since October 7

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rabbi Walter Homolka. at left, with other leaders of Germany Jewry including Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, at far right, at an event in October 2019.

LA and Jerusalem rabbis step in as battle rages over who should run German rabbinical schools

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism poses for a picture at the First Station Complex in Jerusalem on June 27, 2018.

Open letter: Reform Jewish leader Rick Jacobs must resign amid 'rapid decline'

By MICHAEL STARR

American Jews and their supporters participate in the March for Israel in Washington, DC, earlier this month.

Prominent Reform rabbi to Democrats: Don't take American Jews for granted

By MICHAEL STARR

Former Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai.

Nachman Shai named dean of Hebrew Union College

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City.

Prominent Reform rabbi denounces progressive groups for siding with Hamas

By MICHAEL STARR

Sharon Shemesh, a member of New York’s Reform Chevra Kadisha burial society, prepares for a tahara to ritually cleanse the deceased's body at Plaza Jewish Community Chapel.

Growing number of Jews using NY’s first Reform chevra kadisha burial society

By FRAN KRITZ , JTA

A mass prayer event for the welfare of the hostages in Gaza takes place at the Western Wall last week.

No ifs, ands, or buts in Jewish unity

By Rakefet Ginsberg

THE FAMILY (L to R): Benjy, Sagi, Tamar, Eden, and Nicky, in November.

He moved to Israel to make the world better - and he's still idealistic

By HOWARD BLAS

Jonathan Oswaks, a friend of victim Paul Kessler and witness to the deadly assault on November 5, speaks to the media at the scene in Thousand Oaks, California, several days later.

This moment is showing the vitality and strength of the Jewish people's diversity - opinion

By IDAN ROLL

Liberal and Reform Jews participating in a rally, in support of Israel In San Jose, CA

American Reform Jews' support for Israel drops amid Gaza war