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Reform Judaism

Jennifer Brodkey Kaufman of Sacramento is the new chair of the North American Board of Trustees for the Union for Reform Judaism. (URJ/Rob Dicker)
Posted inNorthern California

New chair of Union for Reform Judaism is a NorCal woman — again

by Gabriel Greschler December 20, 2019January 3, 2020
Friday night prayers at the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial featured a 78-person choir and screens projecting the words of the service, Dec. 13, 2019. (Rob Dicker/Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inReligion

Inside the biggest American Shabbat service of the year

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 17, 2019December 17, 2019
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inNews

Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African Americans

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 13, 2019December 17, 2019
Hernán Rustein (right) at the Vatican, where he sang in 2014. (Fotografia Felici)
Posted inReligion

Latin America’s rising ‘passion’ for Reform Judaism coming to Bay Area this Shabbat

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 3, 2019December 3, 2019
Andrew Rehfeld delivers his inaugural address as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2019. /Courtesy of HUC
Posted inU.S.

Reform seminary inaugurates first non-rabbi as president

by JTA October 29, 2019
Rabbi Gilad Kariv seen at the courtroom of the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem before the start of a court hearing about public transportation on Shabat, Sept. 11, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Gilad Kariv wants to be the first Reform rabbi in Israel’s parliament

by Sam Sokol and JTA August 22, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at the Reform movement's Consultation on Conscience in Washington, May 21, 2019. (Photo/Courtesy of the Religious Action Center)
Posted inU.S.

It’s a Democratic lovefest at a Reform movement policy conference

by JTA and Ron Kampeas May 21, 2019May 21, 2019
The lake at URJ Kutz Camp and one of the camp's iconic "pagodas"
Posted inUncategorized

Saying goodbye to Kutz Camp, Reform Judaism’s ‘forever home’

Lisa Silverstein Tzur by Lisa Silverstein Tzur December 3, 2018December 3, 2018
Rabbi Uri Regev
Posted inBay Area

Activist Rabbi Uri Regev warns of a growing theocracy in Israel

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 8, 2018
Michael Chabon at home in 2016 (Photo/Cathleen Maclearie)
Posted inNews

With talk of inmarriage and Israel, Chabon’s speech to new rabbis ruffled some feathers

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 25, 2018May 29, 2018

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