URJ News
- The People of New York City Have Spoken
Over a hard-fought and deeply polarizing campaign, New Yorkers heard extensively from the candidates and each other. In this moment, we urge the Jewish community to help lower the temperature, listen generously, and take steps to promote healing.
- Reform Movement Statement on the Release of the Remaining Israeli Hostages
Our brothers and sisters who were held in unimaginable conditions by Hamas are now free and have reunited with their loved ones.
- Reform Movement Statement on Hostage and Ceasefire Plan
After two years of seemingly endless war, we welcome the news that an end is finally in sight.
- Leaders of International Reform and Progressive Judaism Stand Together in Solidarity
A response to UK leaders of Progressive Judaism being heckled and forced to leave the stage at a community-wide rally calling for the release of the hostages.
- Reform Movement Statement on Israel’s Expansion of the War Against Hamas
We implore Israel to choose life for our hostages, our soldiers, and innocent civilians in Gaza by ending - not extending - this war.
- Reform Movement Statement on Starvation in Gaza
In response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the Reform Movement has released the following statement.
- Reform Movement Statement on West Bank Settler Violence
Against the backdrop of so much anguish and crisis in Israel and Gaza, the mounting crisis of settler violence on the West Bank against Palestinian civilians is too often ignored.
- Letter to National Education Association
We write to you on behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism and Reform Movement institutions that together encompass 2 million congregants, 2,500 clergy, and 850 congregations.
- Reform Jewish Leader Condemns IRS Decree Allowing Houses of Worship to Endorse Candidates
In response to the IRS’s decision to limit the Johnson Amendment by allowing houses of worship to endorse candidates without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner released the following statement.
- Reform Jewish Leader Condemns Passage of Devastating Budget Bill
As a Reform Movement committed to lifting up the most vulnerable, this budget reconciliation bill is an immoral erosion of our socioeconomic fabric that will leave tens of thousands to needlessly suffer each year.
