Oklahoma tornado: How you can help

Published on May 21, 2013

Jewish groups are joining the effort to help those displaced by the tornado in suburban Oklahoma City.

Conversion 101

Published on May 8, 2013

Conversion to Judaism is not easy. It requires a change in beliefs, actions and lifestyle. It involves extensive study, practice, a leap of faith, a shift in perception and some sacrifice.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs installed as URJ president

Published on June 11, 2012

Rabbi Rick Jacobs in his formal installation as president of the Union for Reform Judaism called on the movement to "chart a new course."

Union for Reform Judaism fires 30 employees

Published on March 29, 2012

The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) laid off about 30 employees as part of a general restructuring of the organization.

Cantor, Ehud Barak to address Reform biennial

Published on November 22, 2011

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will address the Union for Reform Judaism's biennial.

An extremist coup at the Union for Reform Judaism

Published on April 29, 2011

The nomination of Rabbi Richard Jacobs to head the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) is the latest coup for J Street. Less than three years after its founding, a member of J Street's Rabbinic Cabinet is being appointed to head the largest branch of American Judaism. With the nominee to head the Reform movement proudly declaring, " I support the goals and visions of J Street," it will be impossible for mainstream American Jewry to continue to marginalize J Street and its profoundly anti-Israel positions. The appointment of Rabbi Jacobs threatens to drive the remaining Zionist Jews out of the Reform movement and to create an unbridgeable schism with the rest of American Jewry.

Survey says Reform rabbis don’t know what members want

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on December 6, 2007

Leaders of Reform synagogues don't quite get their members, according to a new study by the movement.

The study shows a marked disconnect between what the leaders think their members are looking for and what the members say they actually want.

Where are the other Jewish anti-war voices?

By Leonard Fein
Published on March 22, 2007

I am ashamed of the URJ’s Iraq resolution

By Rabbi Steven Z. Leder
Published on March 22, 2007

I don't embarrass easily. But the Union for Reform Judaism's (URJ) recent resolution calling for an "expeditious withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq" did the trick.

New commentary looks at Torah from woman’s point of view

By Jacob Berkman
Published on October 19, 2006

The Reform movement will soon publish a commentary on the Torah that gives the woman's perspective. "The Torah: A Women's Commentary," a project of Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), the movement's women's division, is a collaboration of 80 biblical scholars, archaeologists, rabbis, cantors, theologians and poets from across the religious spectrum -- all of them women who came together to present a new perspective on the Bible.

Reform Body Rejects Science Distortion

By James D. Besser
Published on December 1, 2005

The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the largest body of religious Jews in the nation, has forcefully come out against the "politicization" of science at a time when the issue is boiling over in state legislatures, churches and classrooms