The president of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents some two million Jews in North America, makes an onsite tour of Israel to be able to report back and shore up support
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After speaking at Saturday night protest in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Rick Jacobs says he was representing majority of US Jews when he spoke out against government's proposed judicial reform

Group says codifying definition into policy, as called for by other Jewish organizations, could see it abused to penalize free speech, particularly for criticizing Israel

Some 60 full-time employees, constituting 20% of the North American organization’s staff, to be cut on June 30; remaining staff to have pay reduced

5,000 people gather to pray at the apex of the Reform Jewish movement’s biennial conference in an experimental service with a range of styles and moods

Move comes after publication of trove of his emails, many of them racist and anti-immigrant in nature, letter says he is unfit to work at White House

'Our parents or grandparents, neighbors or community members once faced a similarly callous and unwelcoming world, with fatal consequences,' groups say in letter to Pompeo

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, condemns Netanyahu's pre-election rhetoric in support of annexing West Bank