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


Darkenu launches campaign asking Diaspora Jews to support Western Wall deal

The non-partisan civil society movement Darkenu launched a campaign calling for Diaspora Jews to express their support for the Western Wall compromise which is being pushed by the gov't.

 WOMEN OF THE WALL hold a prayer service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox women protest

MK Gilad Kariv, stop pushing your Kotel agenda - opinion

No matter how many times Women of the Wall flout their feminist agenda, this group of 30-40 women is nothing but a front for the political aspirations of the Israeli Reform movement.

 Rabbi Gilad Kariv at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.

Pluralism is not Jewish? - Opinion

Many Jewish sources which favor unity are opposed to uniformity. Bemidbar Rabbah (13:15,16) for example, affirms that 'there are 70 faces to the Torah.'

World Zionist Organization chairman Yaakov Hagoel with newly elected President Isaac Herzog in July, at a ceremony in honor of Herzog’s departure as chairman of the Jewish Agency.

Sexual abuse, misogynist culture harmed students at Reform rabbinical school

The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion employed sexual harassers and fostered a culture of sexism, racism and homophobia, according to numerous allegations.

American, Canadian and Israeli flags are displayed in the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Environmental group quits democracy rally because ‘Zionist’ groups are present

Rabbi Jonah Pesner, RAC’s director, said it was “unfortunate that any organization would refuse to join together to protect voting rights."

The US Capitol building, which contains the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Time for Bennett to go to shul in America - analysis

Some American Jewish groups felt disenfranchised from Israel during Netanyahu's term due to his haredi parties alliance — Bennett could change that.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praying at the Willard Hotel in Washington on Wednesday.

Reform movement petitions High Court on Jerusalem chief rabbi ‘incitement’

Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar has described homosexuals as “a cult of abomination” and said non-Orthodox Jews were worse than Holocaust deniers.

SEPHARDIC CHIEF Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar: Time to go?

Does calling someone a 'pig' sound different in Yiddish?

Porush meant that Reform Judaism is dangerous because Reform Jews “show” some Jewish practices but do not observe “all” of them.

Ultra-Orthodox worshippers pray on Tisha Be’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, at the Western Wall on July 18, 2021.

Three ladies, three lattes: The Reform rabbi

Will Orthodox Jews accept the authority of a Reform rabbi on a Knesset committee?

APPOINTEE GILAD KARIV leads the  committee in the Knesset, July 5.

Union for Reform Judaism, ADL launch collaboration to combat antisemitism

'Through this partnership, we hope to encourage more reporting to help raise awareness of the threats facing the Jewish community,' said ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt.

A MAN wearing a kippa waits for the start of a demonstration against antisemitism at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in 2014