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


Defense Ministry program for disabled veterans moves forward

Approximately 7,200 applicants are awaiting responses regarding recognition of their disabilities and the degree of help that will be offered to them. The One Soul program will speed up the process.

A protest by disabled IDF veterans in Tel Aviv, April 18, 2021

An Ohio rabbi’s misconduct involved a child. No one told his congregants

A photo showing Rabbi David Komerofsky and Rabbi Jon Adland a year into Komerofsky's employment took new meaning after Adland was named in a sexual misconduct report.

A suburb of Cleveland, Ohio [Illustrative]

Tensions will be high at Kotel for Rosh Hodesh service on Friday

Reform and Conservative movements are expected to march toward the Western Wall while Haredim are arranging protests.

ANAT HOFFMAN (center), director of Women of the Wall, speaks to reporters at the Kotel yesterday.

Bennett meets Reform and Conservative leaders 

MK Gilad Kariv said he hopes the meeting leads to a building proper egalitarian prayer site at the Kotel in the months ahead.

 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 27, 2022.

Israel's Chief Rabbinate needs the courage to reform - opinion

Seventy years of religious repression, civil marriage and intermarriage have brought many people of Jewish descent to Israel who are not halachically Jewish.

 RELIGIOUS SERVICES Minister Matan Kahana sits next to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a session in the Knesset plenum earlier this month.

Religion state reforms will strengthen halacha - opinion

Modifications to kashrut and conversion systems represent a key opportunity to address critical issues in Jewish practice that demand change.

 ISRAEL’S SEPHARDI Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a rally against Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana’s conversion and kashrut reforms plan, at the International Convention Center, on February 1.

An accepting attitude: The real conversion reform we need - opinion

There is one key point that has been overlooked amid all the bickering: our attitude toward those who do choose to convert, which is no less in need of improvement.

 YOUNG CHINESE men study Torah in Yeshivat Hamivtar in Gush Etzion, preparing for their Orthodox conversion.

Reform Jewry's hidden agenda with the Western Wall now revealed - opinion

The huge motivation to attain legitimacy for new streams in Judaism, especially at the Western Wall, is clear to me. But at what price?

 THE MASSES pray at the Western Wall during Sukkot.

The Western Wall partition won't bring Diaspora Jewry closer to Israel - opinion

There is a plan in the Knesset to partition the Western Wall and establish a plaza for mixed prayer.

 A CONFRONTATION takes place at a service with Women of the Wall at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

American reform rabbis group finds late rabbi ducked abuse complaints

Rabbi Michael Cook resigned from the CCAR to avoid investigation into abuse claims against him.

Rabbi Michael Cook teaches a class at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 2016.