This book is an intellectual biography and study of the Moravian-born Adolf (Aharon) Jellinek (1821-1893). In his time, Jellinek was a prominent rabbi and scholar who made significant contributions to ...

(RNS) — Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Reform rabbi visits an Orthodox community, and a good time is had by all. Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth, an Orthodox synagogue in Wilmington, Delaware, celebrated ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

(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 ...

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.