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Culture An organ divided a synagogue. The fallout helped create Reform Judaism.
'Happyland' tells the true story of a synagogue in antebellum South Carolina
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Opinion Reform Judaism helped craft the Voting Rights Act. Its evisceration gives Jews a new mission
The erosion of the 'crown jewel' of the Civil Rights Movement requires a new era of moral courage
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Fast Forward Steeped in history, Pensacola Jews celebrate the 150th anniversary of Florida’s oldest synagogue
The celebration included a gala and a visit to the grave of Florida's first Jewish mayor
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Fast Forward As Ohio again tries to block Hebrew Union College’s restructuring, a new rabbinical school emerges in Cincinnati
The College for Contemporary Judaism pledges to fill a role soon to be vacated by the Reform movement’s historic midwest flagship
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Culture Could my love of oysters actually be kosher?
At the turn of the 20th century, rabbis argued that bivalves were OK to eat — which is good news for a Jewish oyster shucker like me
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Fast Forward Andrea Weiss, trailblazing Reform rabbi who merged scholarship and activism, dies at 60
Weiss was the first-ever woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement
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Fast Forward Israel’s High Court sides with egalitarian prayer advocates in long-running Western Wall dispute
“The court is ordering an end to the foot-dragging,” Reform Movement attorneys say a decade after a deal to expand egalitarian prayer was struck
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Fast Forward Could a $1,700 rebate change the landscape of Jewish education?
What a national school voucher program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will mean for American Jews — and why it’s dividing them
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