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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

Rabbinical Assembly

An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU via JTA)
September 29, 2024, 5:11 am
Investigation clears Ziegler rabbinical school deans of ethics code allegations
Committee’s conclusion in line with findings of related investigation undertaken by law firm at behest of American Jewish University, completed earlier this year
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Dr. Micah Goodman delivers his acceptance speech for the 2014 Marc and Henia Liebhaber Prize for Religious Tolerance. (courtesy)
October 20, 2023, 11:42 am
After ToI podcast, US rabbis weigh thinker’s call for ‘vows’ to support Israel at war
Israeli author Micah Goodman wants US rabbis to take an oath in front of their congregations. While some leaders are on board, others say the gesture is redundant
By Matt Lebovic
Semi-automatic guns are displayed for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply, in Springfield, Illinois, January 16, 2013. (Seth Perlman/AP)
August 22, 2023, 8:11 pm
Jewish groups back gun restrictions for domestic abusers in US Supreme Court case
Amicus brief led by Jewish Women International includes organizations representing Reform, Conservative and Orthodox rabbis in high-profile test of Second Amendment
By Andrew Lapin
Rabbi Stephen Weiss in a 2020 video. (Screen capture: Youtube, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 2, 2023, 12:38 am
Cleveland-area rabbi sentenced to prison for soliciting underage sex
Stephen Weiss, formerly senior clergy at a Conservative synagogue, given six months; prominent rabbi William Lebeau draws criticism for acting as character witness
By Andrew Lapin
From left to right: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir, Prime Minister and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, and Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich, in 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 4, 2022, 7:43 am
More US Jewish groups publicly fret over far-right showing in Israeli election
ADL, National Council of Jewish Women call out Religious Zionist members’ history of ‘racism, homophobia and misogyny’; across the pond, UK Jewry strikes a milder tone
By Judah Ari Gross
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
The Conservative Movement's Rabbinical Assembly 2014 convention. (Screen capture/YouTube)
October 22, 2021, 12:40 am
Conservative movement publishes list of rabbis it has expelled or suspended
Rabbinical Assembly says move part of review of its handling of misconduct allegations; 9 listed, including rabbi arrested in Israel for performing non-Orthodox wedding
By Jacob Magid
Members of the Armenian community march with flags and torches on April 23, 2015, in Jerusalem's Old City, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)
December 13, 2019, 2:52 am
Why some US Jewish groups now recognize the Armenian genocide, and others don’t
Jewish officials have historically withheld recognition to protect Israel-Turkish relations and Turkish Jews; Ankara’s current regime has changed that
By Eric Cortellessa
US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, September 26, 2019 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
September 28, 2019, 1:15 am
Trump tells Jewish leaders in New Year’s call: ‘I don’t want’ war with Iran
US president tells nearly 1,000 prominent Jews that they ’embody the American dream,’ says he supports more Holocaust education in schools
By Ron Kampeas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during his Likud party meeting in Jerusalem on September 18, 2019. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
September 19, 2019, 3:17 am
As Netanyahu’s position weakens, liberal US Jews root for an end to his reign
A different prime minister could help heal rift with Democrats and the American Jewish community, leaders say
By Eric Cortellessa
Rabbi Reuven Hammer. (YouTube screenshot)
August 12, 2019, 11:20 pm
Reuven Hammer, pioneer of Conservative Judaism in Israel, dies at 86
Rabbi remembered for his role in founding the Masorti movement and as ‘a leading scholar in the Jewish world’
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and and Richard Sandler, chairman of board of trustees for the Jewish Federation of North America, at the JFNA's General Assembly in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 13, 2019, 3:59 pm
With Netanyahu’s win and settlement sovereignty vow, a Diaspora ‘rupture’ alert
Saying it’s because they ‘love Israel,’ some American Jewish leaders warn annexing the settlements would create a major political emergency and further isolate much of US Jewry
By Eric Cortellessa
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 Jacob Blumenthal (Rabbinical Assembly via JTA)
April 12, 2019, 1:30 pm
US Conservative rabbinical group appoints Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal as new head
Spiritual leader at Shaare Torah in Gaithersburg, Maryland replaces Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the first woman to serve as chief executive of a major rabbinical organization
By Josefin Dolsten
Otzma Yehudit members Michael Ben Ari (L), Baruch Marzel (C) and Benzi Gopstein protest at the entrance to the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 25, 2019, 10:00 pm
Conservative Movement rips ‘dangerously radical’ Otzma Yehudit party
Rabbis warn against prospect of extremist faction joining coalition after elections, say they ‘hope and pray it returns to a place of irrelevance’
By ToI Staff
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