The Reform movement — the largest Jewish denomination in the country — announced layoffs today in its main umbrella organization, the Union for Reform Judaism, citing an existential threat brought on ...

Investigators hired by the Union for Reform Judaism learned of dozens of incidents of sexual misconduct over the past 50 years. They are recommending changes. (JTA) — The last of three investigations ...

(RNS) — ‘We are heartbroken and distressed by these accounts and we profoundly apologize for the enduring pain caused to so many,’ said UJR leaders in a statement. (RNS) — The Union for Reform Judaism ...

(RNS) — It has been a foreboding few weeks in Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest, most powerful force in American Jewish life, was there to witness much ...

“’What is the difference between Liberal and Reform Judaism’ has therefore become a question that our rabbis, cantors, lay leaders and even PR people struggle to answer,” the new alliance’s co-CEO’s ...

The first weekend of November 2023, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) held its annual convention at a hotel near O’Hare Airport outside of Chicago. It was the 48 th convention since the ...

As calls to overhaul the criminal justice system continue to shape policing and state law in Colorado, that reform movement is having a quieter — yet forceful — impact on this fall’s district attorney ...

It turns out emergency remote instruction is far from new. Back in 1937, when a polio outbreak plagued the U.S., Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations.

Monifa Bandele became a community organizer in the late 1990s, after New York City police fatally shot a young, unarmed Black immigrant named Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. In the two decades since, she ...

(JTA) — In a major development for British Jewry, the United Kingdom’s Liberal and Reform Jewish movements are joining to create a unified Progressive Judaism movement after working separately for ...