NEW YORK -- As a rabbinic student in 1980s New York, Denise Eger lived away from other seminarians. She quietly started a group for fellow gay and lesbian students but held meetings in another borough ...

PITTSBURGH — Rabbi Walter Jacob, who 60 years after he left Germany as a refugee returned to help revive its Liberal Jewish community, died Oct. 20 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 94. The longtime ...

Rabbi Lance Sussman is a well-known figure in the American Reform Jewish movement, particularly at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, where he served as rabbi for more than two ...

(RNS) — Hebrew Union College's New York City campus is moving to a smaller building. (RNS) — Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform movement’s rabbinical training school, is ...

(RNS) — Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion announced the sale of the Greenwich Village building at West 4th Street to New York University. It will move to another building also in ...

Michael Marmur knows that some of the theological questions he raises in his new book may not be entirely palatable to readers. The Jerusalem-based Reform rabbi likens them to crunchy peanut butter.

The AssociatedPress JERUSALEM -- Israel's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to recognize non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism that are at least partly performed in Israel, giving a limited victory to the ...

In a significant moment for British Jewry, the UK's Reform (b. 1840) and Liberal (b. 1902) movements have voted to unite as one singular body: 'Progressive Judaism.' Progressive Judaism will now ...