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“’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 ...

Gone is the stylized menorah, variations of which have represented the Union for Reform Judaism for at least 50 years. Also scrapped are the stylized Hebrew letters for chai, or living, the longtime ...

(RNS) — It has been a foreboding few weeks in Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest, most powerful force in American Jewish life, was there to witness much ...

The first weekend of November 2023, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) held its annual convention at a hotel near O’Hare Airport outside of Chicago. It was the 48 th convention since the ...

Changing the system isn’t new. It’s been happening for centuries, in unexpected places. Eleanor Roosevelt started writing “all men are born free.” Then, Hansa Mehta, an Indian freedom fighter, changed ...

I’ve been advocating for 15 years for Hebrew Union College to admit rabbinical students in interfaith relationships. As the founder of organizations that advocate for interfaith families’ Jewish ...

SACRAMENTO – As a general rule in politics and public policy, I’d suggest applying one’s principles as consistently as possible. It’s hard to be taken seriously if, say, you want the feds to prosecute ...

(JTA) — 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 ...