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Ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffle with police as they protest members of the Women of the Wall movement bringing in Torah scrolls to their hold Rosh Hodesh service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on March 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 4, 2022, 7:49 pm
Thousands of Haredim try to stop egalitarian prayer at Western Wall, clash with cops
Officers prevent Reform, Conservative leaders from entering worship area with Torah scrolls, as thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators converge on holy site to disrupt them
By ToI Staff
Representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism from North America and Israel stand outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem before a meeting on February 28, 2022. (Reform Movement in Israel)
February 28, 2022, 5:23 pm
PM meets Reform, Conservative leaders after 6-year hiatus under Netanyahu
Bennett vows to improve conditions at Western Wall prayer space; MK Alon Tal, who attended sit-down, says he’s optimistic about improving ties between Israel and progressive Jews
By Judah Ari Gross
A Palestinian carries an injured protester during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018. (AFP / MAHMUD HAMS)
May 15, 2018, 3:05 am
Reform Jewish head expresses ‘alarm’ over Gaza deaths
Rick Jacobs says Israel has right to defend itself, praises embassy move, but urges ‘it does not have to be this way’
By JTA
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha speaking at the Union of Reform Judaism Biennial on December 7, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Courtesy URJ)
January 24, 2018, 2:50 am
Flint water crisis whistleblower receives Union for Reform Judaism award
Mona Hanna-Attisha honored for going against protocol to bring attention to the contamination quickly and stem an enormous health risk
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jonathan D. Sarna
January 17, 2018, 10:50 am
Jonathan D. Sarna
Pulled pork potato kugel? Yes, it’s a thing
The original Trefa Banquet was an accident, but it divided American Jews forevermore
This file photo taken on August 15, 2017, shows US President Donald Trump speaking to the press at Trump Tower in New York. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)
From the WebAugust 31, 2017, 2:47 pm
Rabbis shouldn’t have snubbed Trump
Instead, they should have confronted the President directly over his incendiary Charlottesville response
By Gary Rosenblatt
Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, Virginia. (screen capture)
August 19, 2017, 4:12 am
Fear, resolve and more security at Charlottesville’s only synagogue
Congregation Beth Israel on edge after armed protesters hurled racist vitriol at worshipers and neo-Nazis threatened to burn down temple
By Ben Finley
Thousands protest in support of the right of LGBT couples to adopt children at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 26, 2017, 4:43 am
US Jews urge Israel to provide equal adoption rights for same-sex couples
200 community leaders and institutions call on government to end discrimination against gay partners who want to adopt children
By JTA
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri leads a Shas faction meeting at the Knesset on July 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2017, 6:57 pm
Deri suggests Reform Jews would convert illegal migrants en masse
Interior minister says conversion bill was designed to prevent efforts to fast-track citizenship, which he claims Israel’s Reform leader supports; Gilad Kariv slams ‘shameful lies’
By Marissa Newman
Reform movement leader Rabbi David Saperstein. (screen capture: YouTube/Union for Reform Judaism)
March 21, 2017, 11:16 pm
Rabbi David Saperstein named senior policy adviser by Union for Reform Judaism
Veteran civil rights activist served as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom under Obama
By JTA
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the movement’s biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2015. (Courtesy URJ)
From the WebMarch 13, 2017, 11:00 pm
Reform leaders say they had a ‘candid’ meeting with Netanyahu
During Sunday discussion, PM said he appointed minister Tzachi Hanegbi to oversee Western Wall compromise efforts
By JTA
Donald Trump speaking at a caucus night watch party at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 23, 2016. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images via JTA)
March 15, 2016, 5:06 am
Reform movement blasts Trump for ‘hate speech’
Umbrella groups reject candidate’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, but back his invitation to AIPAC confab
By JTA
Rafi Daugherty, with his daughter, Ettie (Kathryn Mathis)
January 22, 2016, 8:32 pm
Jewish transgender man gives birth, embraces life as a single ‘abba’
‘I didn’t think God made mistakes and I always wanted to be a mommy,’ Rafi Daugherty says
By Gabrielle Birkner
Head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 12, 2015, 10:22 pm
Sharansky slams Arab MK’s refusal to enter Jewish Agency building
Chairman derides bid for ‘cheap political gain’ by Joint List head Odeh, who skipped talks with US Jewish leaders over location of offices
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin and Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the Union for Reform Judaism, attend a meeting of American Jewish religious leaders in New York, Dec. 11, 2015. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism)
December 12, 2015, 2:22 am
‘We want equal rights in Israel,’ non-Orthodox Jewish leaders tell Rivlin
Reform and Conservative Jews demand parity on marriage, divorce, conversion and worship at the Western Wall
By Uriel Heilman
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