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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Miri Gold

Approaching a year to the Israeli government's cabinet decision to create a pluralistic prayer pavilion at Jerusalem's Western Wall, the implementation is stymied in politics. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
January 13, 2017, 1:20 pm
With a spotlight on the Western Wall, is this Israel’s Reform moment?
In an increasingly exclusionary religious Israel, Modern Orthodox Israelis are joining forces with a flourishing Liberal Jewry. Approaching a year to the announcement of a pluralistic prayer pavilion, will this partnership see it built?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Miriam C. Berkowitz, chaplain at the St Louis French Hospital, performing a wedding at a nursing home. (courtesy)
March 8, 2015, 7:30 pm
Struggle and success, in the words of pioneering Jewish female clergy
Across the denominational spectrum, rabbis and scholars were asked 3 basic questions and gave very different thoughtful answers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Miri Gold celebrates Simhat Torah at Kibbutz Gezer (photo credit: Sarah Gimbel)
January 2, 2014, 7:57 pm
Much more work to be done, says Reform Rabbi Miri Gold
The successful conclusion of her 2005 lawsuit this week allows state salaries for non-Orthodox Israeli spiritual leaders, but the US-born rabbi says world Jewry must continue the fight for pluralism
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Miri Gold in front of the 'Aron Kodesh' at Kibbutz Gezer's Kehilat Birkat Shalom (photo credit: Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
January 1, 2014, 2:57 pm
In first, Reform rabbis in Israel receive state salary
Reform Movement marks bittersweet victory, awaits full parity as Culture Ministry transfers payment to Miri Gold and 3 others
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Brad Ausmus is introduced as the new Detroit Tigers manager during a news conference in Detroit Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013. Ausmus replaces Jim Leyland who stepped down as manager.(photo credit: AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
November 8, 2013, 7:00 pm
Israel team post helps Ausmus to Tigers manager job
Major League Baseball veteran’s gig as coach in the Holy Land last year is one of the more important lines on his resume
By JTA and Howard Blas
Rabbi Gilad Kariv, the head of the Reform movement in Israel, performs a Reform Jewish wedding ceremony in front of the Knesset, on March 18, 2013. To the left of the couple stands Labor party MK and secretary-general Hilik Bar. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 4, 2013, 4:01 pm
Non-Orthodox hopeful but wary on rabbinic equality
Government to reform the current Orthodox monopoly over state-funded rabbinic posts, but questions over implementation remain
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Miri Gold in front of the 'Aron Kodesh' at Kibbutz Gezer's Kehilat Birkat Shalom (photo credit: Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
May 31, 2013, 1:19 am
Non-Orthodox city rabbis to be funded by state
In major victory for Reform movement, Ministry of Religious Services announces drastic changes in how community rabbis chosen
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Miri Gold in front of the 'Aron Kodesh' at Kibbutz Gezer's Kehilat Birkat Shalom (photo credit: Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
May 30, 2013, 7:55 pm
In victory for Reform Judaism, non-Orthodox rabbis to be funded by state
Ministry of Religious Services will allow Reform and Conservative rabbis, including women, to hold official positions
By Lazar Berman
Labor Party head Shelly Yachimovich speaks during a conference of the Jewish people policy Institute in Jerusalem on October 31 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)
October 31, 2012, 6:04 pm
Yachimovich calls for recognition of non-Orthodox Judaism
Labor chief praises recent decision to have Reform and Conservative rabbis receive state funding
By Raphael Ahren
Rabbi Rick Jacobs at his 2012 installation as head of the Reform movement. (Clark Jones, Courtesy the Union for Reform Judaism)
July 5, 2012, 3:15 am
Reform Judaism, claims its new US president, is increasingly the answer to secular Israelis’ prayers
Rabbi Rick Jacobs: In 10 years there will be a major force of non-halachically acknowledged Jews in Israel — serving in the army, paying taxes, intermarrying
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A member of Women of the Wall, wearing a tallit and kipa during prayer (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash90)
June 18, 2012, 1:21 pm
Liberal Jews making progress in Israel
Conservative and Reform movements see decision to fund their rabbis as a crack in the ultra-Orthodox monopoly
By Aron Heller
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar (left) and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in April (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
June 18, 2012, 11:10 am
Sephardi chief rabbi slams funding of non-Orthodox rabbis
Amar: Landmark decision to fund Reform and Conservative spiritual leaders is ‘reckless’
By Hillary Zaken
Rabbi Miri Gold in front of the 'Aron Kodesh' at Kibbutz Gezer's Kehilat Birkat Shalom (photo credit: Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
June 8, 2012, 1:33 pm
A landmark baby step to religious pluralism
Forty years after the ordination of the first female rabbi in the United States, Israel begins to recognize other streams of Judaism, starting with Rabbi Miri Gold of Kibbutz Gezer. A surprising conversation with the rabba
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
May 29, 2012, 5:18 pm
In first, non-Orthodox rabbis to receive state funding
Attorney general recommends that Reform spiritual leader be put on government payroll
By Hillary Zaken
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