WASHINGTON -- Murray Koppelman saw women pushed onto the back of a bus in Tehran and had a nightmare about Israel’s future.Koppelman, a well-known philanthropist in New York, is behind a New Israel Fund pledge drive to combat discrimination against...
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 Nathan Guttman, FORWARD
• Published August 31, 2011
WASHINGTON - Since mid-July, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated for "social justice" in what have been called the nation's largest protests on domestic issues in recent memory, and organizers promise more. Yet the leaders of most major...
Rabbi Richard Jacobs was unanimously elected to serve as president of the Union for Reform Judaism.Jacobs, the senior rabbi at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y., was elected Sunday by the URJ board of trustees. He will assume the presidency...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- For the man tapped to lead American Jewry's largest religious denomination, keeping the movement's 900-plus synagogues welcoming to the unaffiliated, inspiring for members and a home for disaffected traditional Jews may require a high-wire...
