Eleven years ago, Palestinian civil society groups created a call for a series of universal boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The actions that have followed for the past decade have become increasingly more prevalent, especially on
Three years ago, in 2013, my husband David Elcott and I traveled to Ethiopia to witness the airlift of the last of the Ethiopian Jewish community to Israel. We didn't realize we could come face to face with heartbreak. Israel has already done extraordinary
As a part of the Knesset’s summer session, Israel’s legislative body recently passed a law banning Reform and Conservative conversions at the state’s publicly-funded and maintained ritual baths, or mikvaot. The bill, which passed on Monday, July 25, came as a
Washington, D.C., August 4, 2016 – In response to the release of the Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement on behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, ARZA: The Association of Reform Zionists of America, the American Conference of Cantors, Men of Reform Judaism, Women of Reform Judaism, and the North American Federation of Temple Youth:
This summer, I began my rabbinical school studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. During my plane ride from Chicago to Tel Aviv, I started writing a short to-do list of things I wanted to do, see, and accomplish during the year I get to
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