When Isabella Vinci stepped out of the mikvah on Nov. 11, 2021, she thought she had done everything that would be required to become Jewish. A beit din, or rabbinic court, had approved her conversion ...

If approved, the amendment would effectively exclude Reform and Conservative conversions from qualifying under Israel's Law of Return ...

(RNS) — The festival commemorates when God gave the Torah, and with it, both spiritual freedom and responsibility, to the ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — As president of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Andrew Rehfeld has met many prospective rabbinical students. Yet he still remembers a ...

Temple Israel, the Michigan synagogue recently targeted in an attack, stands as a prominent institution within Reform Judaism, North America's largest branch of the faith. This denomination is known ...

Ari and Lauren Douglas’ wedding had many of the hallmarks of a traditional Jewish ceremony. The couple stood under a traditional covering called a chuppah, as a cantor recited a series of blessings.

Religious coalition lawmakers frame the bill as a return to halachic conversion standards, while opponents say it would hand the religious establishment greater control over Jewish identity ...

The policy change means that three of the four biggest non-Orthodox rabbinical schools in the United States now accept students whose partners are not Jewish. Hebrew Union College, the Reform movement ...

(JTA) — When Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp appeared on an episode of the “Judaism Unbound” podcast last year to talk about her new online Jewish conversion class, she didn’t know that two listeners would ...

Is Erin Foster Jewish in real life? Erin Foster is Jewish in real life and converted to Judaism. She converted to Reform Judaism right before she married her music executive (not rabbi) husband Simon ...

I thought the need for this conversation would have disappeared. Like, a few decades ago. I cannot believe I have to say this. Again. But, here goes. The other day, I was talking to someone about a ...