reform Archives – Jewish Journal

Israel allows government councils to pay non-Orthodox rabbis

Jewish Journal May 29, 2012

The Israeli government will begin paying non-Orthodox rabbis and recognizing them as community leaders.

Reform Rabbis Split Over Performing Mixed Marriages

Sue Fishkoff July 13, 2006

Rabbi Deborah Bravo of Temple B\’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, N.J., went through plenty of placement interviews after her 1998 ordination as a Reform rabbi. Everywhere, she got the same question: not about her attitude toward homosexuality, not whether she wore a kippah and tallit, but whether she would officiate at an intermarriage. \”It has become the litmus test for placement,\” Bravo said in San Diego at last month\’s annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the Reform movement\’s rabbinical association.

‘JAM’-packed Campus Outreach

Rachel Brand February 27, 2003

It\’s not unusual to see 60 students cramming into an nonairconditioned duplex on fraternity row on a Saturday night at UCLA — unless
those students happen to be surrounding a havdalah candle singing Hebrew songs.

Divided We Stand

Amy Klein March 7, 2002

One Friday night, I was at a local rabbi\’s house for Shabbat dinner, and he said to me: \”The Jewish Journal should be a newspaper that unites the different denominations of our community.\”

Taking the Middle Road

Julie Wiener June 3, 1999

The two-page statement, which seeks to spell out just exactly what Reform Judaism is about, was discussed for close to two years, underwent six drafts, garnered more than 30 amendments and sparked heated debate among Reform rabbis and their congregants.