Rick Jacobs

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Op-Ed: Why Pope Francis has given religion a good name again

Though he hasn’t changed a single church doctrine, with his shift in tone and evident big-heartedness the pope has won the admiration of the faithful and faithless alike, Rabbi Rick Jacobs writes.

Reform Jews urge Obama to call Turkey’s massacre of Armenians ‘genocide’

The terminology follows the president’s pledge on Holocaust day to ‘never forget, never again,’ Union for Reform Judaism’s leader writes to POTUS.

10 questions about Jewish conversion you want to know but are afraid to ask

Can conversion be revoked? Is there a test to become Jewish? How are children converted? Some of the answers may surprise you.

United States

At Presbyterian assembly, divestment advocates’ win is a limited one

Israel

Diaspora rabbis urge Jerusalem mayor to quit backing anti-Arab rabbi

Culture

Are in-marriage and intermarriage equal in Reform Judaism?

United States

Reform slashing its HQ to invest more in youth programs

Lifestyle

Reform biennial opening to outsiders in bid to revitalize movement

Culture

Reform’s Rick Jacobs hails new openness in Israel to religious pluralism

Culture

A Reform leader at the Rebbe’s farbrengen

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