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Breaking News Jewish institutions should divest billions in fossil fuels, new report says
The Jewish nonprofit Dayenu encourages Jewish groups to divest $3 billion in non-renewables and invest it in clean energy
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Fast Forward ‘Not a theocracy’: Proposed change to Israel’s Law of Return sparks concern
The results of Israel’s recent election skewed toward right-wing candidates, some of whom want to restrict who the country welcomes under its Law of Return
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Opinion Israeli city refuses to allow a synagogue for Reform congregation. We’re suing
In Israel, funds for synagogue construction are channeled almost exclusively to the ultra-Orthodox
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News This new congregation offers holy hikes with llamas. Will it last?
What does the future of Judaism look like? In Arizona, a rabbi sick of traditional synagogue life may have an answer
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Fast Forward Reform, Conservative leaders plead with Lapid to confront harassment of non-Orthodox Jews at Western Wall
‘We believe you have attained this position for just such a crisis,’ the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements write in a letter to the new Israeli prime minister
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News As camp begins, the Reform movement strengthens ties with Jewish security group
The Union for Reform Judaism is formalizing its relationship with the Secure Community Network, which provides trainings for synagogues across the country
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Culture This law professor argued that Reform Jews aren’t devout enough to merit religious freedom
Blackman argued that a Florida synagogue asserting a religious freedom right to abortion doesn’t have strict enough beliefs to need protection.
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News New group fears rabbis are drifting away from Zionism
Some clergy worry that the Reform and Conservative movements aren't doing enough to defend Israel
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Fast Forward What the LA synagogue pro-Palestinian protest was really about
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Opinion What would Donald Trump do in Gaza?
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Fast Forward Some imagine a ‘President Josh Shapiro.’ Here’s what he said about Biden after the debate.
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Looking Forward Biden’s rabbi and I debate whether it’s time for the president to step aside
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Fast Forward Nearly half of Americans see antisemitism as a ‘very serious problem,’ poll finds
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Yiddish דער קאָסאָווער רבי — אַ באַליבטער מנהיג און דיין — איז אַוועק צו 66 יאָרThe Kossover Rebbe — beloved leader and rabbinic judge — has died at 66
ר׳ שרגא פֿײַוויש האַגער איז געווען באַקאַנט פֿאַר זײַן גאונות אין הלכה און חסידות, ווי אויך פֿאַר זײַן טיפֿן עניות.
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Opinion An unprecedented victory for a historically antisemitic right-wing party in France, and now the world holds its breath
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Music How a Jewish kid named Lou Reed left ‘the most boring place on earth’ to become ‘King of New York’