The idea of “Clean Slate” laws is to help streamline the complicated legal process of clearing and sealing old criminal ...

“’What is the difference between Liberal and Reform Judaism’ has therefore become a question that our rabbis, cantors, lay leaders and even PR people struggle to answer,” the new alliance’s co-CEO’s ...

The first weekend of November 2023, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) held its annual convention at a hotel near O’Hare Airport outside of Chicago. It was the 48 th convention since the ...

Gone is the stylized menorah, variations of which have represented the Union for Reform Judaism for at least 50 years. Also scrapped are the stylized Hebrew letters for chai, or living, the longtime ...

Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is challenging his movement to stop ordaining anti-Zionist clergy. Yet his colleagues don’t want to make hard choices about leftist antisemitism.

(RNS) — It has been a foreboding few weeks in Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest, most powerful force in American Jewish life, was there to witness much ...

The policy change means that three of the four biggest non-Orthodox rabbinical schools in the United States now accept students whose partners are not Jewish. Hebrew Union College, the Reform movement ...

Changing the system isn’t new. It’s been happening for centuries, in unexpected places. Eleanor Roosevelt started writing “all men are born free.” Then, Hansa Mehta, an Indian freedom fighter, changed ...

In The Minneapolis Reckoning, Michelle Phelps offers an incredibly compelling description of the many acts of resistance, and the responses prompted by that resistance, that arose from the murder of ...

“The question before us is the same one that splintered the Reform movement a century ago and almost broke us. Are we truly committed to Jewish peoplehood? If so, what are our obligations flowing from ...

(JTA) — In a major development for British Jewry, the United Kingdom’s Liberal and Reform Jewish movements are joining to create a unified Progressive Judaism movement after working separately for ...