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Efforts underway to launch new seminary for Reform movement in Cincinnati

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The loss of an ordination program two years ago at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati left a gap in the training of Jewish leaders that a new religious college seeks to fill. Attorney Andy...
Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements meet with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Photo: GPO/Kobi Gideon.

Haredim livid as Bennett meets Reform, Conservative leaders

Israel’s prime minister met on Monday with the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements to advance the framework agreement for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. The meeting, which came after a nearly...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Credit: Carrington Tatum/Shutterstock.

Jewish organizational streams weigh in on Texas abortion law

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Representatives of multiple Jewish denominations in the United States expressed disapproval of a new law in Texas that makes it nearly impossible for a woman to receive an abortion in the state, especially after...
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

Religious pluralism won’t be achieved in the courts

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Reactions to this week’s Israeli Supreme Court ruling about recognizing the validity of conversions to Judaism by non-Orthodox denominations are all out of proportion to its actual significance in terms of the number of those affected...
Israeli Supreme Court president Esther Hayut and Supreme Court justices arrive to petition against the Jewish Nation-State Law at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Dec. 22, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Landmark decision recognizing non-Orthodox conversions performed in Israel sparks fierce debate

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Israel’s Supreme Court handed down a bombshell decision on Monday recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions for those seeking to obtain citizenship. The result has caused an uproar in Israel and within the Jewish Diaspora, with some saying it...
Esther Hayut, president of Israel's Highest Court, the Supreme Court, March 14, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Israel’s High Court: Reform, Conservative conversions in Israel valid for ‘Law of Return’

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The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday issued a bombshell ruling that recognized conversions by the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel, therefore enabling Israeli citizenship under the “Law of Return.” The 8-1 ruling, which ended...
The erection of an “Apartheid Wall” on the University of Minnesota campus. Source: University of Minnesota Students for Justice in Palestine via Facebook.

Reform’s dangerous mixed message on defining anti-Semitism

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After a year when it seemed as if a civil war between conservative and liberal groups would tear it apart, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations managed to unite and take a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the site of a deadly terror attack near Ariel in the West Bank on March 18, 2019. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Why US Jewish leaders have a problem with Netanyahu

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I recently wrote about the foolish and arrogant letter sent by the American Reform and Conservative movements and some of their associated organizations to U.S. President Donald Trump, demanding that in light of newly re-elected Israeli...