Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different interpretations. After the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in 70 C.E., ...

I have spent much of my professional life waging a battle against two little letters – “ED.” It does not mean what you (salaciously) think it means. The ED with which I struggle is this one. “I am not ...

“I fear that we are losing the soul of the Reform movement,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said at the opening of “Re-Charging Reform Judaism,” a two-day conference held this week in New York City. “Here and ...

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During our worship service at my recent convention of Reform Rabbis, I noticed many things goings on around me. To my left was a colleague wearing no religious symbols. Behind me was a colleague with ...

Imagine a conversation in a household during this season. A husband asks his wife: “Must we go to the holiday concert at school tonight? You know how much I dislike Christmas songs.” The wife pauses.

(JTA) —The Reform movement is folding its high school program in Israel into a larger, nondenominational program, in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations amid declining enrollment.

An attack upon Reform Judaism which appeared in a recent issue of the “London Jewish Chronicle” is answered by Rabbi Victor Emanuel Reichert of Rockdale Avenue Temple in an editorial in the current ...

Discussions around the creation of the burial society helped spark growing interest among Reform Jews in Jewish ritual burial and other end-of-life issues. When members of the year-old Reform Communal ...

Rabbi David Ellenson, an American rabbi and academic whose vision of liberal Judaism influenced generations of Reform leaders, died on Thursday at age 76. First appointed a faculty member at Hebrew ...

When members of the year-old Reform Communal Chevra Kadisha of New York complete their work preparing a Jewish body for burial, they take a few minutes to stand together around the closed coffin.