Reform Movement

Diaspora Ministry pairs with US liberal synagogue rabbinical fellowship to strengthen Israel ties

A cohort from the SWFS Amplify Israel fellowship met with Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli in an effort to "strengthen [Israel's] connection with liberal rabbis from North America."

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli meets with US Reform rabbis in an effort to strengthen ties between Israel and American Jewry in early January 2026.
Hebrew Union College celebrated the academic achievements of students in its Israel programs during the Ordination and Academic Graduation at the Taube Family Campus.

Hebrew Union College ordains six new rabbis in Jerusalem, bolstering Israeli reform movement

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx on Friday. The writer asks: Does Mamdani still not understand that anti-Israel rhetoric has generated a sharp spike in antisemitic violence?

Jews are right to be alarmed about Zohran Mamdani - opinion

THE WRITER leads a service at her synagogue, East End Temple.

Reform Judaism and Zionism: The danger of misrepresentation - opinion


Disgraced former Reform movement leader Sheldon Zimmerman expelled from rabbinical association

The original investigation into Zimmerman concluded in 2000 with his resignation from Hebrew Union College and a suspension from the rabbinical association.

 The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019. Under a new proposal, HUC is considering ending its rabbinical program in Cincinnati but maintaining the archives.

Diaspora min. bashes radio host for attacking Conservative, Reform Jews

Chikli argued that any amendments to the Law of Return have a "dramatic influence" on Diaspora Jews.

 MK AMICHAI CHIKLI attends the House Committee meeting in the Knesset last week at which he was declared a defector.

Thousands of Reform Jews send letters to Israeli embassies, Netanyahu, protesting Judicial reform

The campaign was launched during the weekend when thousands of Reform movement communities sent emails to Israeli embassies.

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Jewish people from all over the world are family, we are family - opinion

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef called Conservative and Reform Judaism a "new religion," earlier this month.

 SEPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef delivers an address. ‘I feel that it’s important for me to remind Rabbi Yosef that Israel was established to bring Jews in the Diaspora close to her, not to ostracize them,’ says the writer.

Why your synagogue, and mine, needs a pickleball court - opinion

Pickleball, the subject of countless breathless articles calling it the fastest growing sport in America, is essentially tennis for people with terrible knees.

 Boaz Lazarus-Klein, 12, awaits a return during a pickleball match at Congregation Shir Shalom near Buffalo, New York, where his father Alexander is the rabbi.

Battle lines deepen in bruising fight for control of Germany’s liberal Jewish institutions

It is virtually assured that yet more slings and arrows will fly before all is said and done - the UPJ could even break apart.

POTSDAM UNIVERSITY – ‘the new nucleus of Jewish Studies in Germany.’

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Reform, Conservative Judaism is a new religion

"Have you ever seen a Reformer [Jew] who repented? I didn't see any, there are none. They feel they are okay; that they have a religion, but they have a new religion."

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

Reform rabbi: Netanyahu is 'last brick in the wall' for Israel-diaspora ties

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch tells ‘Post’ of potentially irreparable damage in the Israel-Diaspora relationship with young American Jews

 Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City.

Leading Reform rabbi likens Ben-Gvir to KKK's David Duke

“Israelis have the right to vote for whoever they want, but they must understand the consequences and the price of their decisions,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs said about Itamar Ben-Gvir.

 Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir and members of the party speak to the press after a meeting with Israeli president Isaac Herzog at the President's residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022.

Ben-Gvir is threatening Jewish unity worldwide - opinion

Ben-Gvir is the real threat to Jewish unity. He must not be allowed to wield his politics of exclusion and intolerance in Israel’s next government.

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir prior to his entry into politics can be seen speaking Israeli attorney Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane, November 7, 2017