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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

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.

Hebrew Union College to end 4 graduate programs, including 2 in Cincinnati

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

At the ceremony marking the 100th ordination of a graduate from Hebrew Union College’s Israeli Reform rabbinical program

Israel must commit to funding all forms of Judaism - editorial

By JPOST EDITORIAL

WE WOULD all have benefited from a different approach that left Yom Kippur outside the struggle, says the writer.

The religious-secular divide: How to calm the water, and how to stir them up - analysis

Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023.

Gov't allocates NIS 2 million to back non-Orthodox faith groups

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shlomo Amar visits at a Yeshiva in Hispin, northern Israel, October 21, 2021.

Court demands answers on chief rabbi's hate speech against LGBTQ, Reform Jews

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE NEW YORK Times building in Manhattan.

Why didn't 'The New York Times' report on the Holocaust? - opinion

A Jew praying at the Western Wall

Almost half of Israelis identify as traditional Jews, defying conventional labels - analysis

THE BIMAH at Temple Isaiah is adorned with both the US and Israeli flags.

No, Reform US Jews aren’t abandoning Israel - opinion

By CHARLOTTE KRAUSZ

STUDENTS TAKE a matriculation exam at a high school in Jerusalem. There is a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that, if left unchecked, may change the face of the country for years to come (Illustrative).

The Reform movement is ending its standalone semester-in-Israel program amid declining enrollment

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Preparations at Gabrieli School in Tel Aviv, ahead of the opening of the school year tomorrow, on August 31, 2022.

A new book made me appreciate Jewish Sunday schools — and the volunteer women who have powered them

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA