Rabbi Rick Jacobs

URJ’s Rick Jacobs also backing J Street’s Presidents Conference bid

The Reform leader says the vote on whether to admit J Street to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will be a test of the umbrella body.

Ideas

Op-Ed: Outreach to interfaith families strengthens the Jewish future

Endogamy or outreach? It’s a choice the Jewish community doesn’t have to make, writes the president of the Union for Reform Judaism.

After lull, intermarriage debate reignites

With the Pew survey renewing communal concern about assimilation, advocates of in-marriage have become louder.

First Person

How I became a Reform Jew

United States

Donniel Hartman to Reform biennial: Kudos for not abandoning Israel

Israel

Respect all Jewish streams, Rabbi Stav says after Knesset blow-up

United States

With vacant space, Conservative and Reform temples turn to Orthodox

Israel

Reform chief Jacobs supports Western Wall plan

Lifestyle

At Reform biennial, energy, Obama and handwringing over the next generation

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