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A smashed window at Jerusalem's Kol HaNeshama, a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem that was vandalized on August 14,2026. (Kol HaNeshama via X)
August 17, 2026, 1:37 am
Jerusalem Reform synagogue vandalized over Shabbat: ‘Won’t dim our light’
Kol HaNeshama says no congregants were on the premises during attack; MK Gilad Kariv, a Reform rabbi, slams the vandals as ‘incited hooligans’
By Noam Lehmann
Rabbi Charley Baginsky (right) and Rabbi Josh Levy on stage at a march for the release of hostages held in Gaza, in London, August 10, 2025. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 28, 2026, 5:44 pm
UK’s top 2 Progressive rabbis: Israel’s direction risks it becoming ‘incompatible with Jewish values’
Israeli government’s path ‘fractures our relationship with Israel,’ and criticizing it, far from disloyalty, is ‘a Jewish obligation,’ Rabbi Charley Baginsky says
By Zev Stub
A boy reads from the Torah as part of his bar mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall's egalitarian section in Jerusalem on November 17, 2022. (Egalitarian section/Facebook)
February 26, 2026, 11:09 pm
Progressive Jews sound alarm over bill cementing Orthodox control of Western Wall
Diaspora leaders warn criminalizing non-Orthodox prayer at the Wall will exclude many from Judaism’s holiest site, violate World Zionist Organization resolutions
By Zev Stub
Rabbi Charley Baginsky (right) and Rabbi Josh Levy on stage at a march for the release of hostages held in Gaza, in London, August 10, 2025. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 11, 2025, 7:08 pm
Progressive rabbis booed off stage at UK hostage rally after backing Palestinian state
Two Progressive Judaism leaders reject ‘violence, terror, and the suffering of civilians’ as method to build state, express sympathy for innocents killed in conflict
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Rabbi Charley Baginsky, Paul Langsford, Dr. Ed Kessler MBE, Karen Newman and Rabbi Josh Levy announce the formation of Progressive Judaism, in a photo provided by the new organization, May 18, 2025. (Zoe Norfolk)
May 19, 2025, 5:20 pm
UK’s liberal Jewish streams merge into unified ‘Progressive’ movement
Resolving ideological differences, the new movement represents about 30% of the country’s affiliated Jews
By Zev Stub
Progressive protesters rally against the Israeli government in New York City, February 21, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 22, 2023, 4:56 am
‘Sounding the alarm’: Progressive Jews decry Netanyahu government at New York rally
Jewish groups protest outside Israeli consulate in Manhattan against judicial overhaul, West Bank policies, and to show solidarity with demonstrations in Israel
By Luke Tress
Rabbi Matt Abelson, right, makes the blessing over bread with children of the Jericho Jewish Center at Shabbat in the park, 2019. (Leslie Hartman)
August 9, 2022, 9:53 pm
NY synagogue’s looming demise highlights Conservative Judaism’s struggles to survive
The Jericho Jewish Center has aimed to consolidate with a nearby congregation, but years of negotiations over men and women praying together finish with the plan voted down
By Cathryn J. Prince
Ben & Jerrys 'Pecan Resist' ice-cream, launched October 2018. (Ben & Jerry's)
July 21, 2021, 6:55 pm
Settlement boycott latest in series of progressive stances by Ben & Jerry’s
Ice cream giant has named flavors after Bernie Sanders and backs causes related to climate change, LGBT rights, criminal justice reform and racial justice
By Jacob Magid
Pope Francis (far right) lights candles at a 2012 Hanukkah Interfaith Celebration at a Buenos Aires synagogue with current World Union of Progressive Judaism head Rabbi Sergio Bergman. (courtesy)
December 10, 2020, 1:15 pm
Pope Francis sends Hanukkah greetings to international head of Progressive Jewry
Argentine Rabbi Sergio Bergman receives handwritten Spanish-language holiday note from countryman
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Sergio Bergman at a Buenos Aires rally. (courtesy)
June 10, 2020, 4:12 pm
Activist, politician, rabbi: Sergio Bergman takes the helm of Progressive Jewry
Social justice champion and former Argentine environment minister is ready to take on Israel’s Orthodox status quo and fight for recognition of 1.8 million Jews he now represents
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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
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