BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published July 11, 2019
To describe Rabbi Michal Ken-Tor as a dynamic educator who is bursting with energy and ideas is not an exaggeration. Ken-Tor was born in 1972 in Kibbutz Geva and grew up on Moshav Kfar in the Jezebel Valley. She is the fifth child from a Zionist family...
JERUSALEM — After a Jerusalem-area’s religious council allowed a female Reform rabbi to participate in its proceedings, some advocates of liberal Judaism in the country are hailing their inroads into the Orthodox-dominated religious infrastructure....
LOS ANGELES -- Are the Ten Commandments only to be heard but not seen? And when they are seen, how should they look? Some groups, notably the Anti-Defamation League, believe that public images of the Ten Commandments should be scarce. “That the increasing...
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Six graduates of the cantorial program of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion were ordained Sunday at Temple Emanu-El in New York. The key word here is “ordained.” Since the cantorial school was established at...
What’s the difference between investiture and ordination? Plenty, say officials at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, which has announced that for the first time since establishing its cantorial school in 1948,...
A full weekend celebration is planned as United Hebrew installs Rabbi Brigitte S. Rosenberg as the fifth senior rabbi in the large Reform congregation’s 174-year history at a special Shabbat service at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, followed by an Oneg...
By Dan Klein, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published October 12, 2011
Do Conservative rabbis become more politically conservative on Israel as they grow older, or are older rabbis simply more right wing than younger rabbis when it comes to Israel?A new study by the Conservative movement's flagship institution presents some...
By Stephen Hazan Arnoff and Steven M. Cohen
• Published July 20, 2011
NEW YORK - JDub Records, the innovative nonprofit Jewish music endeavor that discovered Matisyahu and numerous other artists, released 35 albums, and brought 150,000 participants to concerts and other events, announced last week that it would be closing...
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, FORWAR
• Published June 1, 2011
NEW YORK — Rachel Isaacs has known, for as long as she can remember, that she wanted to be a rabbi. On May 19, she concluded her pioneering journey through the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary to become the first openly gay person...
