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Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, March 8, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Hadas Parush-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘Infuriating and upsetting’: Liberal Jewish movements condemn Israeli PM’s decision not to implement Western Wall agreement

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA February 1, 2022
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
(Illustration/Forward)
Posted inReligion

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)
Posted inU.S.

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 Shira Stutman discusses circumcision during a class for converts to Judaism at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC on December 5, 2013.. (Photo/JTA-Linda Davidson-The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

These Jews want to normalize not circumcising — and they want synagogues to help

by Ben Harris and JTA October 8, 2021December 7, 2021
Rabbi Samantha Kahn officiates an interfaith wedding in the Bay Area. (Photo/Courtesy of 18Doors)
Posted inOpinion

Who is included in the ‘us’ of our prayers? 

Edmund Case by Edmund Case August 26, 2021August 27, 2021
Rabbi Mary Zamore, the executive director of the Women's Rabbinic Network (Photo/JTA-Steve Shawl)
Posted inU.S.

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
Jews gathered at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn every evening for the month leading up to Tisha B'Av to blow the shofar and call for justice on behalf of Black lives. (Photo/JTA-Ari Beser)
Posted inOpinion

Why Reform Jewish leaders support H.R. 40, the federal reparations bill

Rabbi Sarah Bassin by Rabbi Sarah Bassin, Deitra Reiser, Rabbi Hannah Goldstein and RNS July 29, 2021July 29, 2021
Synagogue in Mád, Hungary (Photo/JTA-Getty)
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Issue of patrilineal descent raises some more questions

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler May 4, 2021May 12, 2021

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