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Participants in Consultation on Conscience, RAC’s social justice gathering, meet outside Sen. John Fetterman’s office in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of Susan Friedberg Kalson)
December 22, 2025, 10:12 am
Socially conscious and in person, Pittsburghers join first RAC gathering since pandemic
'We have a right to be in serious conversations about policy, and we have a right to advocate for policy based on the values we hold dear'
By Adam Reinherz
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)
March 14, 2022, 4:52 pm
Local congregations grapple with Reform movement’s ethics issues
Ethics reports bring changes including liturgical melodies and the creation of new committees
By David Rullo
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the Union for Reform Judaism president, speaks at the movement’s biennial conference in Orlando, Fla., in 2015. Photo courtesy of URJ
December 9, 2021, 8:05 am
For the love of Israel, we need to say: The Reform Movement is Zionist
Jewish leaders have an obligation to speak about Jewish peoplehood and our struggle to survive.
By Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch
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)
May 16, 2021, 5:24 pm
Pittsburgh rabbis, Reform movement react to allegations against NY rabbi
Former Central Synagogue senior rabbi accused of predatory behavior with three women
By David Rullo
Illustration by Rabbi Allie Fischman courtesy of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
July 19, 2020, 9:08 pm
PA branch of Reform Religious Action Center launches
RAC-PA begins alongside national push for civic engagement
By Adam Reinherz
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Union for Reform Judaism president, addresses the audience at the movement’s biennial conference in Orlando, Fla., in November 2015. (Photo courtesy of URJ)
April 2, 2020, 8:23 am
URJ President Rick Jacobs virtually sits with the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
Discusses Rabbi Jamie Gibson, Pittsburgh and the Reform movement
By David Rullo
abbi David Maxa from Prague, Czech Republic, receiving his synagogue’s first Torah. The Torah was previously used by URJ Camp Kutz. Photo provided by Dale Lazar
December 24, 2019, 4:17 pm
URJ focuses on inclusion during 2019 Biennial
Reform Movement passes resolution in favor of reparations
By David Rullo
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