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Mayerson Hall at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
June 13, 2026, 9:56 am
Hebrew Union College claims Ohio’s charity law suit violates its First Amendment rights
Move is latest battle between Reform rabbinical seminary and state AG’s office, which accuses HUC of violating nonprofit law by shuttering degree-granting programs on Cincinnati campus
By Andrew Lapin
Yizhar Hess, a World Zionist Organization vice chairman and senior representative of the Masorti/Conservative Judaism (left), discusses with an ultra-Orthodox worshipper at the Western Wall in an undated picture. (Courtesy)
May 12, 2026, 2:23 am
Divisive bill barring non-Orthodox practices at Western Wall back on Knesset agenda
Legislation would give chief rabbis ultimate authority at holiest site for Jewish prayer, could see non-Orthodox worship branded as ‘desecration,’ carrying 7-year jail term
By Rossella Tercatin
FILE: New immigrants from France arrive on an "Aliyah Flight" at Ben Gurion airport. August 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 7, 2026, 2:56 pm
Ministerial panel to vote on bill that would bar citizenship for non-Orthodox converts
Reform movement leader: ‘Government slamming door in the faces’ of Diaspora Jews amid rising antisemitism; MK Rabbi Kariv: Move would ‘collapse the bridge’ between Israel and Diaspora
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Conservative rabbis pray at the Ezrat Yisrael egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, December 12, 2024. (Courtesy/ File)
February 20, 2026, 2:24 am
High Court tells state to advance Western Wall egalitarian plaza upgrade, without further delays
Chief rabbis claim justices overstepped their authority with ruling, while Shas leader Aryeh Deri accuses them of trying to ‘desecrate’ Western Wall
By Rossella Tercatin
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US, killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy, Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 22, 2025, 4:28 am
Reform movement opposes death penalty for accused killer of Israeli embassy staffers
Director of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism sends letter to US attorney general calling capital punishment ‘a stain upon civilization and our religious conscience’
By Grace Gilson
Michael Marmur, a Reform rabbi based in Jerusalem and associate professor at Hebrew Union College, in his office on June 10, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
July 12, 2025, 7:30 am
New book by Reform rabbi broaches the most indigestible of Jewish questions
In ‘Living The Letters – An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought,’ Israeli scholar Michael Marmur says future of Jewish state, modern Judaism keep him up at night
By Rossella Tercatin
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
Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)
April 30, 2025, 9:20 am
Rioters storm Ra’anana synagogue during screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
4 police officers and 3 participants injured, 3 right-wing activists arrested after attack on Reform Beit Samueli building; MK Gilad Kariv, a, rabbi, decries ‘attempted pogrom’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch (front, in black jacket) visits author Yossi Klein Halevi, with a cohort of young Reform rabbis, January, 2025. (Courtesy/Stephen Wise Free Synagogue)
January 21, 2025, 3:43 am
More ‘sober’ US Reform movement and Israelis reach new understandings, lead rabbi says
After Israel trip, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of New York’s Stephen Wise Free Synagogue says visit to northern, southern borders helped young US rabbis better grasp Mideast challenges
By Luke Tress
US Vice President Kamala Harris, right, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
January 5, 2025, 7:07 pm
Elissa Slotkin sworn into US Senate on Reform women’s Torah commentary
Newly elected Michigan senator joins 33 other Jewish members of the 119th Congress
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Andrew Rehfeld delivers his inaugural address as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 2019. (Courtesy of HUC)
June 21, 2024, 10:06 am
Hebrew Union College rabbinical school to admit students in interfaith relationships
Policy change brings seminary in line with norms across Reform movement, where intermarriage is common; students with children must pledge to raise them as Jews
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Illustrative: Supreme Court Justice Ofer Grosskopf at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 6, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 14, 2023, 7:11 pm
Supreme Court rules Law of Return applies to widows of Jews’ children and grandkids
Judges uphold previous decision on matter against stance of Population Authority, which believes law only applies to non-Jewish widows of Jews, not widows of descendants
By Ron Kampeas
Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community's synagogue in Hanover, Germany, in December 2016. (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images/JTA)
September 21, 2023, 11:51 am
Final probe into prominent German Reform rabbi affirms abuse of power allegations
Investigation centers on actions by Rabbi Walter Homolka and his partner; the pair deny all allegations, including of sexual harassment
By Toby Axelrod
A student raises her hand in class. (Courtesy Alexander Muss High School in Israel via JTA)
June 23, 2023, 6:45 am
Reform movement to end standalone semester-in-Israel program as enrollment declines
The Union for Reform Judaism’s Heller High program, where high school students spend a semester in Israel, to merge with Alexander Muss High School in Israel
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Portraits of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Hebrew Union College, left, and Rabbi Sally Priesand, the first American woman ordained as a rabbi, right. (Courtesy/Hebrew Union College and the National Portrait Gallery via JTA. Design by Mollie Suss)
June 22, 2023, 4:53 am
National Portrait Gallery to display image of 1st ordained US woman rabbi
Rabbi Sally Priesand will be featured in prestigious Smithsonian Institution, along with prominent 19th century Reform rabbi, Isaac Mayer Wise
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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