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Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Rabbi Rick Jacobs ( center), head of North America's Union for Reform Judaism, and other non-Orthodox Jews clashing with security guards at the entrance to the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash 90)
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Four ways Israeli and American Jews grew apart in 2017

Ben Sales by Ben Sales December 20, 2017March 19, 2018

This hasn’t been a good year for Israel and American Jews. The two poles of world Jewry, each boasting about half of the globe’s total Jews, have never quite seen […]

Daryl Messinger of Palo Alto, chair of the Union for Reform Judaism board of trustees, addressing the record crowd of 6,000 at URJ Biennial in Boston, Dec. 7, 2017 (Photo/Courtesy URJ)
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Israel, sexual assault and the future weigh on largest-ever Reform gathering

by Penny Schwartz December 12, 2017March 19, 2018
Zack Bodner, CEO of the Oshman Family JCC, speaks at the opening session of the Zionism 3.0 conference, Oct. 15, 2017. (Photo/Courtesy OFJCC)
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Jew vs. Jew at Zionism 3.0 conference in Palo Alto

by Rob Gloster October 16, 2017March 19, 2018
Jacobs speaking at a podium
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Reform and Conservative leaders must pull out of conference that will feature Gorka

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler April 27, 2017April 27, 2017

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