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Vigil for victims of Capital Jewish Museum shooting
Posted inU.S.

Reform movement urges against death penalty for alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter

by Grace Gilson August 21, 2025August 21, 2025

(JTA) — The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers […]

(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 Sheldon Zimmerman is accused of sexual harassment of three women, including one who was a minor at the time.
Posted inU.S.

Reform rabbinic giant first disciplined in 2000 now accused of ‘sexually predatory’ behavior

Hannah Dreyfus by Hannah Dreyfus and Forward April 28, 2021April 28, 2021
the facade of a plain limestone building with an Israeli flag hanging on it
Posted inNews

Unlikely coalition blocks right-wing takeover of top World Zionist Congress positions

by Ron Kampeas and JTA October 21, 2020
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
Rabbi Aaron Panken, the president of Hebrew Union College who died recently in a plane crash, leads a Torah procession at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Photo/Courtesy of HUC)
Posted inJewish Life

Local Reform leaders remember ‘irreplaceable’ HUC president

by Dan Pine and JTA May 7, 2018May 7, 2018
Jacobs speaking at a podium
Posted inU.S., News

U.S. Reform movement leaders meet with Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah

by JTA March 10, 2017March 19, 2018

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