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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

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Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs speaks at a protest against the government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on February 25, 2023. (Screenshot)
February 26, 2023, 5:18 pm
Reform Judaism head: Critics say US Jews can’t have an opinion, then seek our help
After addressing Saturday night protest in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Rick Jacobs says he was representing majority of US Jews when he spoke out against government’s planned judicial overhaul
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screen shot from Vimeo via JTA)
February 15, 2023, 3:55 am
Ex-Reform movement chief expelled from rabbinical group after allegations reexamined
Sheldon Zimmerman, who previously led movement’s flagship institutions, ousted from Central Conference of American Rabbis over sexual misconduct allegations first made 20 years ago
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A firefighter douses the flames in an Israeli car after it was allegedly set on fire by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
January 25, 2022, 4:04 pm
ADL, other Jewish groups denounce ‘ongoing terrorism’ by settler extremists
In letter to Bennett, Lapid and Gantz, organizations urge ‘unequivocal action’ to stop violence against Palestinians, other Israelis and IDF; note damage caused to ties with US
By JTA and Jacob Magid
Rabbi Michael Cook teaches a class at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 2016. (Janine Spang)
December 23, 2021, 6:31 pm
Probing ethics process, Reform group finds late rabbi ducked abuse complaints
New report commissioned by the Central Conference of American Rabbis reveals how Michael Cook was able to continue teaching after formal allegations were lodged against him
By Asaf Shalev
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screen shot from Vimeo via JTA)
May 1, 2021, 10:33 am
Questions over alleged coverup of sex abuse claims against US Reform rabbi
NY’s Central Synagogue investigating allegations against former rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, wants to know why Central Conference of American Rabbis appeared to hide prior accusations
By JTA
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism via JTA)
January 26, 2021, 1:50 am
US Reform movement: IHRA definition of anti-Semitism should not be law
Group says codifying definition into policy, as called for by other Jewish organizations, could see it abused to penalize free speech, particularly for criticizing Israel
By Ben Sales
Illustrative image of a pregnant woman. (Pexels via JTA)
May 15, 2019, 9:18 am
More than 100 rabbis and cantors urge New York state to legalize surrogacy
Letter calls on lawmakers to pass Child-Parent Security Act; says family is ‘at the core of most of the major Jewish life cycle events’
By JTA
US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)
April 12, 2019, 5:19 pm
Nine Jewish groups ask Trump to restrain Netanyahu on West Bank annexation
In unusual if not unprecedented letter, mainstream Jewish organizations, including Reform and Conservative movements, plead with a US president to hold back an Israeli PM
By Ron Kampeas
Rabbi Hara Person, appointed head of Central Conference of American Rabbis in November 2018. (Courtesy of CCAR via JTA)
November 16, 2018, 1:44 am
The Reform movement’s rabbinical group appoints its first female leader
Hara Person takes the helm of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, says she wants to focus on embracing the rabbinate’s diversity, in terms of gender and career trajectories
By Josefin Dolsten
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
June 26, 2018, 8:40 pm
Jewish groups decry Supreme Court upholding of Trump travel ban
Leading immigrant rights organization HIAS expresses ‘disappointment’; Reform Jewish leader calls on Congress to ‘push back against offensive and dangerous policy’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rabbi Steven A. Fox, Chief Executive of Central Conference of American Rabbis, addresses an audience at a Chicago Convention. (Central Conference of American Rabbis)
April 9, 2018, 9:19 pm
Leader of Reform movement’s rabbinical arm to retire
Rabbi Steven Fox says he has ‘accomplished much’ during his 13 years as CEO of Central Conference of American Rabbis
By JTA
Steven A. Fox
March 26, 2018, 3:39 pm
Steven A. Fox
Needed: Rabbinic resistance to the religious right
Reform rabbis can show the world that the “religious perspective” need not be only the regressive viewpoint
A HIAS protest in front of the White House in which people shared stories of their family members who were refugees or immigrants, March 1, 2017. (Ted Eytan via JTA)
February 18, 2018, 12:42 am
Jewish groups call on US census to drop citizenship question
10 community organizations pen letter to Trump administration warning that reinstating query will ‘raise fears’ among immigrants
By JTA
David Kinnear
September 23, 2017, 1:12 am
David Kinnear
Ideological inbreeding in US Judaism
The Reform Movement’s commitment to diversity stops at tolerating Republicans
Thousands protest in support of the right of LGBT couples to adopt children at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 26, 2017, 4:43 am
US Jews urge Israel to provide equal adoption rights for same-sex couples
200 community leaders and institutions call on government to end discrimination against gay partners who want to adopt children
By JTA
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