“’What is the difference between Liberal and Reform Judaism’ has therefore become a question that our rabbis, cantors, lay leaders and even PR people struggle to answer,” the new alliance’s co-CEO’s ...

(JTA) —The Reform movement is folding its high school program in Israel into a larger, nondenominational program, in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations amid declining enrollment.

“I fear that we are losing the soul of the Reform movement,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said at the opening of “Re-Charging Reform Judaism,” a two-day conference held this week in New York City. “Here and ...

I have spent much of my professional life waging a battle against two little letters – “ED.” It does not mean what you (salaciously) think it means. The ED with which I struggle is this one. “I am not ...

(RNS) — Hebrew Union College's New York City campus is moving to a smaller building. (RNS) — Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform movement’s rabbinical training school, is ...

“The question before us is the same one that splintered the Reform movement a century ago and almost broke us. Are we truly committed to Jewish peoplehood? If so, what are our obligations flowing from ...

This book is an intellectual biography and study of the Moravian-born Adolf (Aharon) Jellinek (1821-1893). In his time, Jellinek was a prominent rabbi and scholar who made significant contributions to ...

Michael Marmur knows that some of the theological questions he raises in his new book may not be entirely palatable to readers. The Jerusalem-based Reform rabbi likens them to crunchy peanut butter.

In a major development for British Jewry, the United Kingdom’s Liberal and Reform Jewish movements are joining to create a unified Progressive Judaism movement after working separately for more than ...

The move onto the Muss campus is the latest in the Reform movement’s reduction in physical space to cut costs and respond to shrinking enrollment numbers. (JTA) — The Reform movement is folding its ...