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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Reform movement

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
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch gives a sermon at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, March 17, 2023. (Screenshot)
March 18, 2023, 12:46 pm
Leading NY rabbi: Israeli government speeding ‘headlong toward abyss’ with overhaul
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue says in his ‘most painful’ sermon: ‘Israeli government is tearing society apart, bringing world Jewry along for dangerous ride’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screen shot from Vimeo via JTA)
February 15, 2023, 3:55 am
Ex-Reform movement chief expelled from rabbinical group after allegations reexamined
Sheldon Zimmerman, who previously led movement’s flagship institutions, ousted from Central Conference of American Rabbis over sexual misconduct allegations first made 20 years ago
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 23, 2022, 6:27 am
Hundreds of US rabbis vow to block far-right Israel lawmakers from their communities
Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist leaders sign letter pledging to not allow some of Netanyahu’s coalition partners from speaking in their synagogues
By Ron Kampeas
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides attends a Hanukkah candle lighting at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall in Jerusalem on December 20, 2022.(Reform Movement in Israel)
December 20, 2022, 11:25 pm
US envoy Nides attends Reform candle lighting at Western Wall’s egalitarian plaza
Gantz heckled at ceremony in men’s section of plaza, drawing condemnation from Haredi party leader; Women of the Wall hold their own lighting, lamenting exclusion from main event
By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid
Sam Bankman-Fried testifies during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 8, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)
December 7, 2022, 5:01 am
Will synagogues shun ‘effective altruism’ movement after Sam Bankman-Fried scandal?
Maximum-impact giving to save lives in the developing world has caught on among Reform Jews in particular, but the scandal involving one high-profile supporter is tainting optics
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Noam MK Avi Maoz arrives for a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 4:18 am
‘Insanity, unreal’: Netanyahu slammed over deal with anti-pluralistic, homophobic MK
Politicians from outgoing coalition say Likud chief’s agreement to put Avi Maoz in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity is a ‘slap in the face,’ could ‘plunge Israel into the abyss’
By Michael Bachner
Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2016. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)
November 11, 2022, 10:48 pm
$2.3 million plan to improve ties with non-Orthodox Jews uncertain after election
Watchdog reveals existence of plan to bring American youth to Israel and hold communal events in the US, without any apparent reference to issues driving disconnect
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
L-R: MKs Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich at a rally of their Religious Zionism party in the southern city of Sderot on October 26, 2022. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)
November 2, 2022, 4:51 pm
However the election shakes out, US Jewry will have to deal with Israel’s far-right
American Jewish groups will likely face calls from inside their organizations to denounce nationalist politicians and face an uphill battle in defending Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
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