Reform

Israel 'abandoned' haredi students, education reform needed, Aliza Bloch tells 'Post' - interview

She criticized the structure of Israel's education system, arguing that the government has ceded too much responsibility for decisions affecting students to bodies outside the public sector.

Former Beit Shemesh mayor and Unity Party member Aliza Bloch in an interview with 'The Jerusalem Post.'
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.

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

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

Illustration of a KAN microphone. October 28, 2025.

Israel’s media reform isn’t deregulation - opinion


Doron Almog slammed by haredim after participating in Reform conference

Shas MK Moshe Arbel: “Doron Almog's quick and unnecessary flattery of the Reform movement indicates that he is not worthy of his new position.”

Doron Almog and Yaakov Hagoel

Knesset passes reform to increase disabled IDF veterans' aid

Defense Minister Gantz and Finance Minister Liberman pushed the reform.

Benny Gantz and Avigdor Liberman shake hands after meeting.

It's time for an electoral reform - opinion

Not every party has primaries, and there is no such thing as regional representation.

Yamina head Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid in the Knesset Plenum during June 2, 2021 presidential elections.

Reform, Conservative Jews slam gov’t after meeting

“At this point, warm words cannot stand alone without action," said the director-general of the Masorti Movement.

 Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.

Kazakhstan’s democratic reformer president bucks authoritarian trend - opinion

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s remarkable courage cannot be overstated, given the fact that he is a political insider and a direct product of the authoritarian Soviet school of thought.

 KAZAKH PRESIDENT Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev responded to a wave of protests with repressive and violent actions.

US revokes visa of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu

A source close to Eliyahu also told the Post that the rabbi was summoned to the US embassy, asked to give over his passport and then his visa was taken out and the passport returned.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends to the funeral of Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Koenig in Safed on December 31, 2018.

This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon be the star of her own reality TV show

Rebecca Eisenstadt and her shih-poo, Scout, can be found shuttling between the Upper East Side homes of her 40 tween students — or “Jewdents,” as she calls them.

 Eisenstadt is a non-denominational Rabbi, and while she keeps Kosher, she describes her observance as "hipsterdox."

Shuly Rubin Schwartz inaugurated as first woman chancellor of JTS

“My goal is to offer a nuanced educational approach that prepares future leaders to share Judaism’s riches," said Shuly Rubin Schwartz in a speech.

 Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz delivers her inaugural address as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary at the institution's Manhattan campus, May 17, 2022.

Matriculation reform for humanities sparks controversy

A new reform announced by the Education Ministry will cancel the bagrut exams in humanities subjects and replace them with one comprehensive project.

Keshet high school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019

Hebrew Union College to end Cincinnati rabbinical program amid controversy

The decision comes after years of declining revenue and enrollment at the school — and months of bitter debate across the Reform community.

 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.