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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Union for Reform Judaism

FILE - The sign above the door to the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging inside the main administration building on the main University of Kansas campus is seen on April 12, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)
February 8, 2025, 6:51 am
Over 30 US liberal Jewish groups sign letter defending DEI as an ‘invaluable tool’
Statement led by Union for Reform Judaism says that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts can be done ‘in way that is truly inclusive of Jewish safety, identities and history’
By Ben Sales
Migrants walk along the Huixtla highway in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, October 22, 2024, hoping to reach the country's northern border and ultimately the United States. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
October 24, 2024, 9:07 am
As US election nears, Jewish groups decry ‘xenophobia, fear and lies’ about immigrants
Thinly-veiled criticism of Trump, signed by Reform and Conservative rabbinic associations and 500 clergy, urges candidates to ‘reject the impulse to seal our borders’
By Ron Kampeas
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, in Jerusalem on June 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 27, 2023, 8:56 am
What Matters Now to Rabbi Rick Jacobs: Coalitions of faith and conscience
The president of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents some two million Jews in North America, makes an onsite tour of Israel to be able to report back and shore up support
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs speaks at a protest against the government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on February 25, 2023. (Screenshot)
February 26, 2023, 5:18 pm
Reform Judaism head: Critics say US Jews can’t have an opinion, then seek our help
After addressing Saturday night protest in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Rick Jacobs says he was representing majority of US Jews when he spoke out against government’s planned judicial overhaul
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism via JTA)
January 26, 2021, 1:50 am
US Reform movement: IHRA definition of anti-Semitism should not be law
Group says codifying definition into policy, as called for by other Jewish organizations, could see it abused to penalize free speech, particularly for criticizing Israel
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism via JTA)
May 14, 2020, 2:19 pm
Union for Reform Judaism announces layoffs and furloughs
Some 60 full-time employees, constituting 20% of the North American organization’s staff, to be cut on June 30; remaining staff to have pay reduced
By Shira Hanau
Friday night prayers at the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial Dec. 13, 2019. (Rob Dicker/Union for Reform Judaism/JTA)
December 18, 2019, 5:23 am
Pushing the boundaries of tradition: Inside America’s biggest Shabbat service
5,000 people gather to pray at the apex of the Reform Jewish movement’s biennial conference in an experimental service with a range of styles and moods
By Ben Sales
In this January 2, 2019, file photo White House senior adviser Stephen Miller listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
November 21, 2019, 1:55 am
Jewish groups join call for ousting Stephen Miller over white supremacist views
After publication of trove of Trump adviser’s emails, many of them racist and anti-immigrant in nature, letter says he is unfit to work at White House
By JTA
Refugees, advocates and faith leaders rally in front of the White House to call for refugee protections on World Refugee Day, June 20, 2017. (HIAS/via JTA)
August 8, 2019, 9:05 pm
Jewish groups urge Trump administration to restore higher refugee quotas
‘Our parents or grandparents, neighbors or community members once faced a similarly callous and unwelcoming world, with fatal consequences,’ groups say in letter to Pompeo
By JTA and ToI Staff
Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)
April 11, 2019, 1:05 am
US Jewish leaders offer congratulations, criticism to Netanyahu on election win
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, condemns Netanyahu’s pre-election rhetoric in support of annexing West Bank settlements
By ToI Staff
David S. Davidson (courtesy Melissa Ludwig)
February 26, 2019, 7:24 am
David S. Davidson, prominent judge and Reform leader, dies at 91
World War II veteran who was also involved in Maryland Democratic politics remembered as lion of social justice and ‘the most incredible mensch’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Al Vorspan (URG/Twitter via JTA)
February 18, 2019, 12:48 am
Al Vorspan, Jewish social justice leader for the Reform movement, dies at 95
Religious Action Center organizer was jailed with other rabbis who joined MLK’s civil rights protests; fought in Navy in WWII and was harsh critic of Vietnam war
By Marcy Oster
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, taking questions from rabbis at a session for clergy at the Reform biennial in San Diego, Dec. 13, 2013. (photo credit: URJ via JTA)
October 23, 2018, 8:21 pm
Non-orthodox leaders downplay Netanyahu’s ‘back channel’ delegation of rabbis
PM said to fly in group of pro-government rabbis ahead of Jewish Federations General Assembly out of frustration with regular criticism from Reform and Conservative movements
By Ben Sales
Right-wing Jewish activists protest outside a joint ceremony for families of Israeli and Palestinian victims on Israeli Memorial Day, in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2015. The flag reads 'The land of Israel only for the people of Israel'. (Tomer NeubergFlash90)
July 20, 2018, 12:44 am
ADL raises alarm over Israeli democracy after nation-state bill
Watchdog joins other US Jewish groups in concern over Jewish state’s treatment of minorities, but backs law’s determination of state symbols
By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff
Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)
July 19, 2018, 8:13 am
Reform and AJC leaders bitterly criticize Israel’s nation-state bill
AJC ‘deeply disappointed’ by new legislation; Reform’s Rick Jacobs bemoans ‘sad and unnecessary day for Israeli democracy’
By Eric Cortellessa
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