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In an escalation of a divisive debate over who is a Jew, the nation’s oldest body of Orthodox rabbis will formally declare that the two largest branches of Judaism in the United States are no… ...
The fact that most Jews do not have a clear understanding of the differences between Reform, Conservative and Orthodox is a failure of these denominations; pointedly, the Reform and Conservative ...
When Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, a.k.a. the Novominsker rebbe, took to the dais at the haredi Orthodox Agudath Israel of America gala on May 27 to condemn Conservative and Reform Judaism and assail the ...
Since I posted last week’s story about the number of Israelis identifying themselves as Conservative and Reform Jews, I’ve been bombarded with emails and calls from people (mostly rabbis) who ...
However, the intense rejectionism — the unleashing of a fusillade of attacks and demeaning, degrading language against Conservative and Reform Jews troubled me deeply.
In Pittsburgh on Saturday, a gunman opened fire at the city's Tree of Life synagogue. At least 12 people were shot and at least four people killed at the Conservative congregation. As news began ...
We asked one from each major branch, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist, to interpret the holiday for their modern congregations. Orthodox: Rabbi Isaac Leizerowski of Congregation ...
Of Reform Israeli Jews, 91% said that they never or rarely participate in religious ceremonies “in the synagogue of the stream with which they identify”. 70% of Conservative Israeli Jews never ...
A haredi Orthodox Israeli lawmaker accused Reform Jews of destroying Judaism, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to address non-Orthodox denominations’ concerns in Israel.
Saddled with excess space due to dwindling attendance, Reform and Conservative synagogues are reinventing themselves as homes for Orthodox Jewish institutions. (JTA) — Marla Topp of Temple Judea ...
JERUSALEM (RNS) American Reform and Conservative Jews are so upset at the Israeli government’s refusal to honor its pledge to build a state-funded egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall ...