There was no unity of opinion on the Nuclear Iran Deal amongst Reform leadership or membership.
J Street is like the kid in the schoolyard who makes the rules in his favor, but when he loses, claims it was unfair.
J Street claims that its rejection from the Conference of Presidents is proof its voice is needed.
The liberal wing of the Jewish establishment in the US is following the same path as it did in the 1940s.
By JTA
The Union for Reform Judaism has sold off half of its headquarters in New York and is investing $1 million from the proceeds to overhaul its youth programming. The sale of one of the union’s two floors at its midtown Manhattan headquarters closed on Wednesday; Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the movement’s president, announced the sale in […]
By JTA
The Union for Reform Judaism awarded one of its highest honors to an Orthodox rabbi, the late David Hartman, at the opening plenary of the union’s biennial conference in San Diego. On Wednesday evening, the union’s president, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, presented the Alexander M. Schindler World Jewry Award to Hartman’s son, Rabbi Donniel Hartman, president […]