A cohort from the SWFS Amplify Israel fellowship met with Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli in an effort to "strengthen ...

NEW YORK -- As a rabbinic student in 1980s New York, Denise Eger lived away from other seminarians. She quietly started a group for fellow gay and lesbian students but held meetings in another borough ...

PITTSBURGH — Rabbi Walter Jacob, who 60 years after he left Germany as a refugee returned to help revive its Liberal Jewish community, died Oct. 20 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 94. The longtime ...

Rabbi Lance Sussman is a well-known figure in the American Reform Jewish movement, particularly at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, where he served as rabbi for more than two ...

The AssociatedPress JERUSALEM -- Israel's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to recognize non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism that are at least partly performed in Israel, giving a limited victory to the ...

In a significant moment for British Jewry, the UK's Reform (b. 1840) and Liberal (b. 1902) movements have voted to unite as one singular body: 'Progressive Judaism.' Progressive Judaism will now ...

(JTA) — WASHINGTON — An array of liberal-leaning Jewish groups, including the rabbinic associations of American Judaism’s two largest denominations, joined 500 Jewish clergy in calling out “an ...

Michael Marmur knows that some of the theological questions he raises in his new book may not be entirely palatable to readers. The Jerusalem-based Reform rabbi likens them to crunchy peanut butter.

The Conservative movement, once the largest denomination in American Jewish life, is in the midst of a long, painful contraction. For decades after World War II, its synagogues were packed, its ...

The enduring popularity of Christian rock is hardly news: for years now, churches in the U.S. and elsewhere have been attracting worshippers with music performed in all kinds of non-liturgical forms, ...

An array of Jewish groups released the stark political message. which appeared to be aimed primarily at Republican nominee Donald Trump less than two weeks before Election Day. WASHINGTON — An array ...