Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner has spoken on Donald Trump’s policies on immigration warning that “the numbing of empathy, the dehumanisation of other people through the encouragement of disdain are documented stages in history that have led to atrocities and even genocides”…
Reform rabbis and other leaders of the Jewish community have signed René Cassin's letter to David Davis MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The letter urges him to use the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU as…
Rabbi Gilad Kariv, President and CEO of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) stated in response to the recommendations of the Nissim Committee on the Conversion issue: “In the recommendations on the issue of conversion there are…
Leo Baeck College (LBC) has announced its latest intake of Progressive Judaism student rabbis, which will include the first Polish-born Jew to study for the Progressive rabbinate since the fall of communism. Two students will start on LBC's acclaimed five-year…
On Wednesday 16th May, young adults from across affiliations in the Jewish community demonstrated outside Parliament regarding the situation on the Israel Gaza border. We know that many of our members were disturbed by this. As leaders of Reform Judaism,…
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. Reform Judaism's Mental Health and Wellbeing Team recently held a forum event to discuss the rise in mental health difficulties, particularly amongst young people, and how we can respond to this. Participants from…
Reform Judaism is stunned and saddened to learn of the sudden death of Rabbi Dr Aaron Panken z”l. Rabbi Panken was 12th President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He died in a plane crash on 5 May.…
More than 350 delegates from 28 countries assembled in Prague to celebrate the Biennial Conference of the European Union for Progressive Judaism (EUPJ) as Conference Chair, David Pollack, explains. Beginning on Thursday 26 April, an opening ceremony was held in…
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism and Rabbi Charley Baginsky, Liberal Judaism's Director of Strategy and Partnerships, together address concerns about anti-Semitism in politics and how we can respond as part of The Alliance for Progressive Judaism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ty9pnjQJ0
Reform Judaism in the north brought together both its cheder teachers and its Northern Learning House students for Live and Learn, a day of inspirational training and education led by Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers at Menorah Synagogue on Sunday 15 April. In…