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Social Equality Minister May Golan speaks in the plenum of the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 21, 2026, 9:22 pm
Ambassador to US slams minister’s ‘disgusting’ remark that Reform rabbi marries dogs
Yechiel Leiter’s condemnation of May Golan’s attack on MK Gilad Kariv comes as over 500 Jewish leaders demand envoy himself apologize for calling J Street a ‘cancer’ in Jewish community
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and JTA
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
April 16, 2026, 9:37 am
New rabbinical school arises in Cincinnati as Hebrew Union College sued over closure
College for Contemporary Judaism centers around liberal Judaism, commitment to backing Israel, and serving US Jews between the coasts where rabbinical access is limited
By Andrew Lapin and ToI Staff
A tourist walks on the temporary egalitarian prayer platform, built in 2013 in Jerusalem's Old City Davidson Archeology Park, as seen on April 12, 2016. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
February 18, 2026, 12:25 am
Local and state government trade blame over delays upgrading Western Wall egalitarian plaza
High Court of Justice holds hearing on status of religious right at Jerusalem’s holy site for first time in years, demands answers on why 2017 directive by PM not yet implemented
By Rossella Tercatin
A boy celebrates his bar mitzvah on the egalitarian Ezrat Israel plaza near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel on June 19, 2023. (Courtesy of the Masorti Movement in Israel)
February 17, 2026, 8:21 am
High Court to hold hearing on Western Wall egalitarian services for first time in years
Liberal Jewish groups seek to ensure full rights for egalitarian prayers despite ultra-Orthodox opposition, long after government nixed compromise on the matter
By Rossella Tercatin
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrives at the National Action Network (NAN) Annual Thanksgiving Feeding event in Harlem, New York City, on November 27, 2025. (Kena Betancur / AFP)
December 12, 2025, 7:31 pm
After meeting Mamdani, leading NY rabbi says ‘deeply’ worried about next 4 years
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch says he was ‘pleased’ to meet with mayor-elect, but remains concerned about his ‘harsh ideological anti-Zionism’
By Luke Tress
The World Union for Progressive Judaism's 2023 Connections conference in Jerusalem (WUPJ)
October 21, 2025, 5:02 pm
Marking global centennial, Reform movement aims to build bridges, strengthen Israel ties
At its biannual conference in Jerusalem, the World Union for Progressive Judaism will repoen its Beit Shmuel headquarters as a cultural center and event space
By Zev Stub
Michael Marmur, a Reform rabbi based in Jerusalem and associate professor at Hebrew Union College, in his office on June 10, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
July 12, 2025, 7:30 am
New book by Reform rabbi broaches the most indigestible of Jewish questions
In ‘Living The Letters – An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought,’ Israeli scholar Michael Marmur says future of Jewish state, modern Judaism keep him up at night
By Rossella Tercatin
From left to right: Labor MK Gilad Kariv at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) and Likud MK Galit Distel Atbaryan at the Knesset on July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2025, 9:08 pm
‘The Jews here want to continue’: Likud MK kicks Reform rabbi out of Knesset hearing
Labor MK Gilad Kariv states women can wrap tefillin, prompting outrage from Distel Atbaryan, who appears to compare act to giving dog a bar mitzvah
By Michael Horovitz, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)
April 30, 2025, 9:20 am
Rioters storm Ra’anana synagogue during screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
4 police officers and 3 participants injured, 3 right-wing activists arrested after attack on Reform Beit Samueli building; MK Gilad Kariv, a, rabbi, decries ‘attempted pogrom’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
An entry to the Skirball campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, California, October 15, 2012. (Kiddo27/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-4.0)
February 28, 2025, 1:35 pm
Hebrew Union College sells part of LA campus, in Reform flagship’s latest downsizing
Sale to neighboring University of Southern California, an academic partner since 1972, follows move to smaller facility in Manhattan and end of rabbinical program in Cincinnati
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch (front, in black jacket) visits author Yossi Klein Halevi, with a cohort of young Reform rabbis, January, 2025. (Courtesy/Stephen Wise Free Synagogue)
January 21, 2025, 3:43 am
More ‘sober’ US Reform movement and Israelis reach new understandings, lead rabbi says
After Israel trip, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of New York’s Stephen Wise Free Synagogue says visit to northern, southern borders helped young US rabbis better grasp Mideast challenges
By Luke Tress
US Vice President Kamala Harris, right, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
January 5, 2025, 7:07 pm
Elissa Slotkin sworn into US Senate on Reform women’s Torah commentary
Newly elected Michigan senator joins 33 other Jewish members of the 119th Congress
By PHILISSA CRAMER
IDF Reserve soldiers and Orthodox Jews take part in prayer and the weekly reading of a Torah Scroll at dawn just before a military exercise on the Golan Heights, April 1, 2024. (Michael Giladi/ Flash90)
October 23, 2024, 8:21 am
How Israeli Jews face the Simhat Torah holiday, forever marred by Oct. 7 massacre
Rabbis recommend muted celebrations, less festive meals and new liturgy, on the first anniversary of the Hamas atrocities that also celebrates completing the reading of the Torah
By Mati Wagner
Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)
October 4, 2024, 8:55 am
What Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise again
While a product of the Conservative movement, the left-wing journalist argues in a new book that ultra-Orthodoxy offers blueprint for ensuring that American Jewish life can thrive
By ToI Staff
The School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam, May 2022. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 22, 2024, 2:55 am
LA and Jerusalem rabbis tapped to support German rabbinical schools
Rabbis Bradley Shavit Artson, Yehodaya Amir set to lead seminaries associated with the University of Potsdam in a move criticized as endangering ‘the unity of the Jewish community’
By Toby Axelrod
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