Tag: Reform Judaism
High Court: State must pay for circumcisions of non-Orthodox converts
Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, ruled on Tuesday that the State of Israel must fund circumcisions for converts who come through the Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism, and...
Conversion cannot be taken lightly
The dramatic ruling on Monday by Israel’s High Court of Justice, ordering the state to recognize non-Orthodox conversions, evoked natural outrage in the haredi community—for how does the court dare weigh in on a religious tradition?...
Dramatic conversion ruling inflames Israel’s political debate
Israel’s High Court of Justice sparked controversy on Monday with a landmark ruling on non-Orthodox conversion, evoking outrage on the right and accolades from the left.
Right-wing parties panned the decision ordering the state to recognize Reform and...
Will the movements survive the pandemic?
It sounds like a good business plan. With American Jewish religious denominations facing agonizing budget decisions in the coming year as a result of the financial losses they are all suffering in the wake...
Millennials search for meaning and authenticity when it comes to Judaism
When Rebekah Paster moved to New York City, she was just out of college and knew almost no one there. “So when a friend insisted I had to go to the nearest Moishe House,” she said,...
Reform launches a political war in time for the High Holidays
It turns out that the Jewish community didn’t need to wait until the synagogues were packed for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in order to gauge the amount of political rhetoric that American rabbis...
Jewish tensions heat up over Western Wall prayer space
A pair of Israeli cabinet members and a Knesset member have in recent weeks inflamed tensions between the Jewish state and leaders of American Jewish organizations by expressing opposition or even disdain towards supporters...
Netanyahu denies saying Reform Judaism will disappear by assimilation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied that he said in closed talks that Reform Judaism in the United States would disappear within two generations due to assimilation.
Netanyahu’s bureau said the reports, which appeared Friday in...