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In recent months, Israeli police have increased pressure on Women of the Wall, a progressive monthly prayer group that meets at the Western Wall. Read responses from the Reform Movement on the interrogation of group leader and IRAC director Anat Hoffman.
The most severe earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years has devastated this impoverished country. The death toll is expected to reach thousands and it will likely be many days until the impact is fully known. Your online donation will help bring relief and hope to the victims.
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As the holiday of Tu b'Shevat approaches, congregations and families prepare to look at the natural world with wonder and celebrate the abundance of earth's incredible resources. At many of our celebrations, we will read from Ecclesiastes 1:4: "One generation goes, another comes, but the earth remains the same forever."
I am saddened and dismayed by recent events at the Western Wall. These events are a tragedy -- a blow to the State of Israel and to the unity of the Jewish people.
Each year on Yom Kippur, Rudolph Dana locks himself in his Pétionville, Haiti, home -- protected by guard dogs and security personnel -- and passes the Day of Atonement fasting, praying and reciting the traditional liturgy of repentance and forgiveness.
In recent months, Israeli police have increased pressure on Women of the Wall, a progressive monthly prayer group that meets at the Western Wall. In response to the interrogation of group leader Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Yoffie issued this statement.
Israel has to change the way it treats its Arab citizens and the haredim, allocating resources more equitably to the former and having the latter "go back to work," Knesset member Avishay Braverman, Israel's minister of minority affairs, said at the opening evening plenary of the Reform Judaism's (URJ) 70th biennial convention last week.
Misha Galperin has notified the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington that he will leave his post as the federation’s CEO this summer to take a position at the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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