Rick Jacobs

The writer is president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the largest, most diverse movement in Jewish life, with 900 congregations and 2 million people.

HAREDI PROTESTORS scuffle with police as the Women of the Wall movement holds Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall, in March.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders: Stop teaching hate - opinion

The young zealots at the Kotel (some were as young as 12) are the products of the schools and communities that raised them. We should call this what it is: a form of antisemitism.

JULY 4, 2022

The egalitarian section of the Western Wall last week with new wooden floorboards.

Implement Kotel agreement and fulfill Isaiah's biblical prophecy - opinion

Making space at the Wall for pluralistic Jewish prayer will proclaim that there is more than one authentic way to live a Jewish life of meaning and purpose.

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Reform movement affirms its zionist core

Real issues divide the world’s two largest Jewish communities: religious pluralism, preserving Israel’s Jewish democratic core and working toward two states for two peoples.

JUNE 29, 2018

A place for every one of us

Rather than continuing to justify or condone allowing Reform and Conservative Jewry to exist under the radar, we want the state to publicly celebrate our people’s diversity.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Newly arrived immigrants from North America react as they are welcomed after landing in Israel on a special flight organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh at Ben-Gurion International Airport