Reform Movement
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2019. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
May 28, 2026, 3:20 pm
A rabbinical school turf war brews in Ohio over Hebrew Union College’s assets
The College for Contemporary Judaism files a motion in a state lawsuit in hopes of taking over the Cincinnati campus.
By Andrew Lapin
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2019. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
April 16, 2026, 1:06 pm
As Ohio tries to block closure of Reform seminary, a new rabbinical school emerges in Cincinnati
The College for Contemporary Judaism pledges to fill a role soon to be vacated by the Reform movement’s historic midwest flagship.
By Andrew Lapin
he Klau Library on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. (Credit: Klau Library/Wikipedia)
April 15, 2026, 1:38 pm
Ohio attorney general sues Hebrew Union College again
“We’re suing to keep these assets in Cincinnati where they belong,” the state prosecutor’s office said of the school’s shuttering Cincinnati campus.
By Mike Wagenheim
People attend a candlelight vigil at Lafayette Square across from the White House in Washington, DC on May 22, 2025, following a shooting that left two Israeli embassy staffers dead. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)
August 21, 2025, 4:15 pm
Reform movement urges against death penalty for alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter
The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism wrote that the death penalty is a “stain upon civilization and our religious conscience.”
By Grace Gilson
Rabbi Jacob with wife, Irene, in Rodef Shalom’s Biblical Botanical Garden. (Photo provided by Rodef Shalom)
October 28, 2024, 11:36 am
Rabbi Walter Jacob dies at 94
The long-serving rabbi of Rodef Shalom Congregation leaves behind a global legacy of scholarship and kindness.
By Eric Lidji
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has announced plans to accept students with non-Jewish partners. (Photo by ajay_suresh, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
June 25, 2024, 9:30 am
Hebrew Union College changes admission requirements
Announces plans to accept rabbinical students with non-Jewish partners
By David Rullo
Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion's main campus is in New York City's Greenwich Village. (Plexi Images/GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
June 20, 2024, 1:55 pm
Hebrew Union College to admit and ordain rabbinical students in interfaith relationships
A prohibition around Jewish exogamy … "is no longer rational because intermarriages can result in engaged Jewish couples,” says HUC president.
By Philissa Cramer
Kibbutz Tzuba, just west of Jerusalem, was the home of URJ's Heller High program for 22 years. (Courtesy Robin Kulwin)
June 22, 2023, 3:02 pm
The Reform movement ends its standalone semester-in-Israel program
Amid declining enrollment, the program will merge with the Alexander Muss High School in Israel.
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Barbara Symons holds the Torah for all to see during an event celebrating 50 years of women being ordained in the Reform Movement. Photo by Rev. Liddy Barlow
June 6, 2023, 12:23 pm
Pittsburgh’s female clergy mark 50 years of Reform ordination
“We need to continue to articulate the gifts women bring to ordination,” she said.
By David Rullo
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screen shot from Vimeo via JTA)
February 17, 2023, 12:24 pm
Former Reform movement leader Sheldon Zimmerman expelled from rabbinical association
Zimmerman, 81, served as president of the rabbinical association for two years, and later as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Book cover
January 30, 2023, 12:12 pm
As non-Orthodox movements weaken, Danny Schiff ponders what’s next in new book
The book urges us to take seriously the Jewish mandate to “resume its role as an ideas generator” as the world is confronted by a host of moral dilemmas emerging from the the digital age.
By Toby Tabachnick
Rabbi Danny Schiff (Photo courtesy of Rabbi Danny Schiff)
January 27, 2023, 9:35 am
Rabbi Danny Schiff on his new book, ‘Judaism in a Digital Age’
The decline of non-Orthodox Judaism and what needs to come next
By Toby Tabachnick
Sam Bankman-Fried testifies during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2021 (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
December 1, 2022, 12:43 pm
Will the Bankman-Fried scandal stop congregations from joining ‘effective altruism’ movement
Bankman-Fried has suggested that his embrace of E.A. was insincere, a tactic to bolster his reputation.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Nether Rabbi Amy Wallk nor Rabbi Mark Cohn had been looking for a relationship when they first met at the Shalom Hartman Institute in 2017. (Photo by Tamar Katz)
June 19, 2022, 10:11 pm
Two rabbis, from two different denominations, get a second chance at love
Though Wallk is a Conservative rabbi and Cohn is Reform, they quickly realized they had much in common.
By Alix Wall
(Image by Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke)
June 18, 2022, 10:00 pm
How Pittsburgh’s congregations are working to include nonbinary Jews
“You are who you are. Who you are is the way God made you. How can we reject that?” — Rabbi Yaier Lehrer
By Ethan Beck
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