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Zionist Union leader Avi Gabbay speaks at a conference held by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on March 11, 2018.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 28, 2018, 9:41 pm
Gabbay backs call to recognize non-Orthodox Jews after US synagogue shooting
But Zionist Union chair also rapped by deputy minister for calling on US Jewish community ‘to immigrate more and more to Israel, because this is their home’
By JTA and TOI staff
MK Michael Oren. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)
October 28, 2018, 11:55 am
Deputy minister: Recognize non-Orthodox Jews after US synagogue shooting
Michael Oren says Diaspora Affairs Minister Bennett should not ‘suffice with condolences’ on his trip to Pittsburgh
By TOI staff
Yonatan Gher
July 19, 2018, 3:00 pm
Yonatan Gher
Arrest me: I too officiated at non-Orthodox weddings
They came for a Conservative rabbi. How much more will it take for liberal Jewish leadership to say enough is enough?
Charles Bronfman
May 4, 2018, 6:50 pm
Charles Bronfman
Rebalancing the Jewish world
To Reform HUC graduates: We must act to prevent Israel and the Diaspora from breaking apart
Avrohom Gordimer
January 3, 2018, 3:18 pm
Avrohom Gordimer
It is time to say Kaddish for non-Orthodox Judaism
We should all be extremely saddened by the impending mass disappearance of the bulk of American Jewry
Todd Berman
January 3, 2018, 3:14 pm
Todd Berman
Don’t rush to say Kaddish for non-Orthodox Judaism
The American progressive denominations are developing engaging programs; we Orthodox should learn from them
Ari Segal
November 5, 2017, 1:38 pm
Ari Segal
Breaking the Jewish gridlock
What if the Haredim traded progressive weddings in Israel for control of the Kotel?
Alon Tal
July 16, 2017, 2:30 pm
Alon Tal
Hitting back
A philanthropic strategy that responds to the Western Wall controversy (and doesn’t withhold donations from hospitals)
Laura Janner-Klausner (Photo credit: CC BY-SA CotevDafWiki/Wikipedia)
From the WebJune 28, 2017, 1:04 am
UK progressive Jews call Western Wall reversal a ‘betrayal’
Senior Reform and Liberal figures slam decision to freeze plans for egalitarian prayer space, Jewish News reports; Board of Deputies president ‘profoundly dismayed’
The Buenos Aires skyline (CC-BY-SA Patricio Dünkler/Wikipedia)
June 27, 2017, 4:01 am
Reform movement launching first rabbinical school for Spanish speakers
Buenos Aires institution will ordain students from Latin America, Spain and Portugal
By JTA
From left, Yael Cobano, Ruth Timon, Rabbi Stephen Berkowitz and Zohar Ben-David participating in the Torah reading at the Reform Jewish Community of Madrid. (Margarita Gokun Silver/via JTA)
June 11, 2017, 3:58 am
The female foursome that started Madrid’s first Reform congregation
City’s progressive community, now a 26-family force of its own, uniquely focuses on inclusivity for women, the LGBT community and non-Jews
By Margarita Gokun Silver
Manhattanville Coffee, opened two years ago, merges two of Crown Heights' communities: It's a chic artisanal cafe with strict kosher certification. (Ben Sales/JTA)
May 19, 2017, 11:59 am
A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory
Known as Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew
By Ben Sales
Daniel H. Freelander
May 18, 2017, 2:54 pm
Daniel H. Freelander
Progressive Jerusalem
The holiest of cities is a great unifier of Jews; no one group has the right to bar any other from it
Emma S. Jacobs
February 28, 2017, 3:01 pm
Emma S. Jacobs
We are women — hear us pray
The pinnacle of offensiveness, as she joined Women of the Wall for the most freeing and oppressive moments of her life
Protesters confront members of Women of the Wall at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Dec. 1, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 1, 2016, 9:01 pm
Women of the Wall subjected to body searches at prayers
Progressive Jewish group says ultra-Orthodox authorities at Western Wall ‘continue escalation of violence against us’
By JTA and TOI staff
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