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Josh Young as Shlomo Carlebach in the 2018 Jerusalem production of "Soul Doctor." A movie version will be screened in theaters on June 13.
Posted inCulture

Planned screening of ‘Soul Doctor’ film about Shlomo Carlebach sparks outrage

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 9, 2023June 21, 2023

A decade ago, a musical about the real-life friendship between Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone opened on Broadway. “Soul Doctor” received mixed reviews and […]

Cantor Nathan Lam during his first service at Temple of the Arts, March 25, 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inOpinion

Cantor in sexual misconduct scandals should not lead Yom Kippur services in L.A.

Rafael Medoff by Rafael Medoff October 3, 2022October 3, 2022
Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community’s synagogue in Hanover, Germany in December 2016. (Photo/JTA-Julian Stratenschulte-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Institutions unravel amid mounting sexual harassment scandal in German liberal Judaism

by Toby Axelrod and JTA May 25, 2022May 25, 2022
Cantor Nathan Lam during his first service at Temple of the Arts, March 25, 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)
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Celebrity L.A. cantor Nathan Lam finds a soft landing after sexual misconduct allegations

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward April 22, 2022September 18, 2023
Rabbi Jeremy Gerber at Congregation Ohev Shalom, south of Philadelphia, in 2009. (Photo/Courtesy Gerber)
Posted inU.S.

How a rabbi suspended for sexual misconduct stayed in his pulpit

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward February 11, 2022September 18, 2023
The S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Photo/JTA-Ady Manory)
Posted inU.S.

Ethics probe: Reform rabbinical group finds late professor ducked sexual abuse complaints

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA December 23, 2021
(Photo/JTA-Denver Post via Getty Images; Graphic/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inOpinion

Our Reform leaders sinned. Should we still sing songs they wrote?

by Josh Katz and Forward December 3, 2021
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Eulogized for championing women, Reform leader now accused of abusing them

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward November 11, 2021
Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk speaking at Temple Sinai in Denver, Colorado in 1968, three years before he became the president of the Reform movement's rabbinical school. (Photo/JTA-Denver Post via Getty Images)
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6 men and a ‘good old boys’ culture harmed students at Reform movement’s rabbinical school, report concludes

Philissa CramerAsaf Elia-Shalev by Philissa Cramer, Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA November 9, 2021November 10, 2021
Rabbi Mary Zamore, the executive director of the Women's Rabbinic Network (Photo/JTA-Steve Shawl)
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The Reform movement is investigating itself over history of rabbinic sexual misconduct

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

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