December 2, 2005

Is a new era dawning in the way American Judaism’s religious movements deal with interfaith families? In his speech last week at the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial convention, Rabbi Eric Yoffie called for more emphasis on conversion: an almost radical move for the leader of the movement considered most accepting of interfaith couples. And […]

The schism between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews in this country is not only ideological (as to whether God or man wrote the Torah, for example) or increasingly political (whether President Bush’s support for Israel makes him worthy of our backing). Each group also has the perception that the other is not doing enough communally and […]