Potsdam has become home to Germany’s Reform and Conservative rabbinical schools and School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam, which inaugurated an egalitarian synagogue on its ...

He was 94. The longtime rabbi of Pittsburgh’s Rodef Shalom Congregation, a Reform synagogue, Jacob descended from a line of rabbis in Germany that extended back 400 years. In 1999, he honored ...

“In study after study, as well as our lived experiences, X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and ...

Do not buy from Jews!’ In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed. The aim of these laws was to take away the rights of Jewish people to be citizens of Germany. This did not mean they had to leave ...

A movement to reform Judaism began in Germany in 1819. It emerged independently in Britain in 1842 with the establishment of the West London Synagogue. Reform Judaism is now a major Jewish ...

Reform Judaism took shape in Germany in the late 18th century when European Jews began to abandon long-observed religious practices in attempt to assimilate in society. The movement reached the ...