Reform Movement

In the shadow of October 7: How Yom Kippur has changed for some secular Israelis

The October 7 attack has affected all Israelis somehow. Some have questioned God’s existence. Others have gotten closer to religion, and sought connection to spirituality.

The empty streets in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays. Israel came to a standstill for 25-hours during the high holiday of Yom Kippur when observant Jews fast and Israelis are prohibited from driving, October 2, 2025.
A damaged window at Kol HaNeshamah synagogue in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Reform synagogue egged on Rosh Hashanah in second attack in a month

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

 Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference on May 31, 2023

Banning anti-Zionist rabbis is the enlightened and liberal position - opinion


The Reform movement is ending its standalone semester-in-Israel program amid declining enrollment

“It’s going to be cost-effective for both Muss and for Heller High because the cost of the general studies is a very significant cost,” he said.”

 STUDENTS TAKE a matriculation exam at a high school in Jerusalem. There is a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that, if left unchecked, may change the face of the country for years to come (Illustrative).

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch: ‘We are losing the soul of the Reform movement’

"To turn against Israel is a sign of Jewish illness," Hirsch said Wednesday.

 Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference on May 31, 2023

Reform rabbis gather for NYC conference to cement Reform Jewish values

Reform Judaism conference in New York addresses issues of Jewish Peoplehood, Zionism and the disappearance of conversion ceremonies in the movement

 Looking south across West 68th Street at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. (May 2011)

Judaism and democracy - enemies or friends? - opinion

The time has come to abandon old rivalries in order to offer interpretations of Judaism consistent with democracy so that Israeli voters can vote for a Jewish and democratic state.

 A PROTESTER holds a sign that reads: ‘I want democracy,’ at a demonstration in Herzliya, earlier this year.

MK Simcha Rothman met with protests at Jewish Agency meeting

One of the main demonstrators was Rabbi Lea Mühlstein, the International Chair of Arzenu, which represents Reform and Progressive Jewry.

 Rabbi Lea Mühlstein

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.

OU leader: Jewish character of Israel should be a value of all Jews

Rabbi Moshe Hauer stands by his principles in dialogue with the reform movement. Nevertheless, he stresses the importance of remembering that all Jews are one family.

 Rabbi Moshe Hauer

Amid anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Reform Jews are betrayed by rabbis - opinion

Our rabbis must declare unabashed support for Zionism and vehement condemnation of anti-Zionism in our very last sanctuary: our shuls.

 THE ‘ISRAEL Apartheid Wall’ at Duke University: So many Jewish anti-Zionists cheer on the non-Jewish, anti-Zionist bullies, says the writer.

Disgraced former Reform movement leader Sheldon Zimmerman expelled from rabbinical association

The original investigation into Zimmerman concluded in 2000 with his resignation from Hebrew Union College and a suspension from the rabbinical association.

 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.

Diaspora min. bashes radio host for attacking Conservative, Reform Jews

Chikli argued that any amendments to the Law of Return have a "dramatic influence" on Diaspora Jews.

 MK AMICHAI CHIKLI attends the House Committee meeting in the Knesset last week at which he was declared a defector.