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Rabbi Richard Jacobs tapped to lead Reform movement

Jewish Journal March 22, 2011

Rabbi Richard Jacobs, the spiritual leader of the Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y., is the choice to become the new leader of the Union for Reform Judaism. The selection of Jacobs to succeed Rabbi Eric Yoffie, who announced last year that he would be retiring in 2012 after 16 years at the helm of American Jewry’s largest religious movement, still requires formal approval by the union’s board of directors, which meets in June.

Reform looking at ways to reinvent the movement

Jewish Journal November 29, 2010

After the Reform movement broadcast online its first session devoted to reassessing itself, in mid-November, the comments poured in.

Lay Leaders Keep Synagogues Going

Sue Fishkoff September 8, 2005

During the week, Dr. David Kolinsky practices family medicine in Pacific Grove, a sleepy Northern California coastal town. But on Saturday mornings he dons his tallit and leads Shabbat services for Congregation B\’nai Torah, a Conservative congregation in neighboring Monterey.

Kolinksy serves as spiritual leader and president of B\’nai Torah, which has been lay led since it broke off from a nearby Reform temple 13 years ago.

Visiting rabbis have passed through, but with just 24 dues-paying members, there\’s no budget to hire even a student rabbi. The congregation also lacks a building — it rents a small room in a local church, where it stores its two Torah scrolls and where, every Saturday morning, the stalwarts wait to see whether a minyan will show up.

Yoffie Emphasizes Need to Forge Links

Joe Berkofsky November 13, 2003

Reform Jews cannot go it alone.

That was the message at the Reform movement\’s 67th biennial in Minneapolis last week.

Despite numerically dominating the North American Jewish landscape, Reform Jews must reach out to other Reform Jews in Israel and Eastern Europe and fight anti-Semitism by forging closer ties to Christians, said the movement\’s president, Rabbi Eric Yoffie.

‘My Judaism Is the Civilization’

Eric Silver March 4, 1999

Amos Oz, Hebrew novelist, secular prophet and self-proclaimed \”non-synagogue\” Jew, has joined his local Reform congregation in Arad, the Negev desert town where he has lived since leaving Kibbutz Hulda a decade ago.

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Rabbi Richard Jacobs tapped to lead Reform movement

Reform looking at ways to reinvent the movement

Lay Leaders Keep Synagogues Going

Yoffie Emphasizes Need to Forge Links

‘My Judaism Is the Civilization’

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