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Fringe rabbis recruit Jewish clergy to lobby against US military aid to Israel, halt weapons sales

The coalition, called 'Rabbis for Block the Bombs, ' launched publicly on 23 August and so far has 92 signatories.

Demonstrators from the group Jewish Voice for Peace hold an emergency Passover Seder outside of ICE headquarters on April 14, 2025 in New York City. The group is calling for freedom for Palestine, the release of Mahmoud Khalil, and to protest President Trump.
Shattered window at Reform synagogue Darchei Noam in Ramat Hasharon, which was vandalized on August 23, 2026.

Reform synagogue vandalized in Ramat Hasharon as religious tensions rise nationwide

This image shot on May 20, 2019 shows New York Central Synagogue on Lexington avenue.

'It’s all a racial thing': Man faces federal charges after synagogue attack

A damaged window at Kol HaNeshamah synagogue in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Reform synagogue vandalized, Pride flags torn down in latest attack


The Diaspora Affairs Ministry should not neglect concerns of Jews abroad - editorial

The readiness to listen to Jewish communities – as the minister said – is important but it cannot just be about their needs when it comes to education and Hebrew studies within their communities.

 DIASPORA AFFAIRS Minister Amichai Chikli arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Chikli responded to Diaspora criticism of the judicial reform by stating: ‘Mind your own business.’

Reform and Conservative Jews feel discrimination in Israel - Jewish Agency chairman

Why do Reform and Conservative Jews feel unappreciated in Israel?

 REFORM JEWS hold up broken hearts as they demonstrate outside the Knesset in 1997 against pending legislation by ultra-religious parties to tighten their grip on conversion issues.

Western Wall compromise: Israel's High Court to hold hearing

This is the first hearing taking place on the issue in the past two years and the first during this government. 

Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movement  hold Rosh Hodesh prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022.

Reform rabbis hold prayers at Kotel, Noam Party activists protest in egal section

Chaos broke out across the Kotel as Women of the Wall held prayer services in the main plaza and Noam Party activists took over the egalitarian section.

 MK Gilad Kariv holds a Torah Scroll during Rosh Hodesh prayer of women of the wall, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, February 22, 2023.

3 million liberal, non-Orthodox Jews vilified by Israel's haredim - opinion

Liberal Jews study Torah and read Jewish books and send their kids to religious schools just like Jews around the world. But they have been vilified by haredim and persecuted by the Chief Rabbinate.

 ANAT HOFFMAN holds a Torah scroll at a Western Wall prayer service on the occasion of Rosh Hodesh. The very people who have turned the Kotel into a battleground are now crying foul, says the writer.

In a twist, German rabbi at scandal’s center cedes rabbinical school ownership to Berlin Jews

Rabbi Walter Homolka faced allegations of sexual harassment scandal involving his husband, who was also his employee.

Rabbi Walter Homolka

Historic church being housed by a synagogue gets green light for restoration

A relationship has blossomed between the synagogue and the church, which has remained homeless due to the six-alarm fire that destroyed most of the building in 2020.

Star of David stained-glass window in the Wales synagogue

Fighting Israel’s new extremist politics with Maccabean determination - opinion

Loud voices within the new Israeli government are distinguished by their hatred for those who are not like them, the author argues.

 Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks about combating racism at the Reform Biennial in Chicago, Dec. 12, 2019.

Reconstructionist Judaism moves to back reparations for African Americans

Representatives of 47 congregations voted in support of a resolution that endorsed reparations for Black Americans. 11 abstained and none voted against.

 Rabbi Deborah Waxman is president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism.

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.