Tag: Rabbis

Beit Kaplan Statement Supporting Pro-Israel Students who withdrew from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College:

May 19, 2024

Posted by Melanie Nathan, May 18, 2024. This is the Statement issued by Beit Kaplan supporting the pro-Israel students who recently withdrew from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: We are a rabbinic partnership dedicated to advancing the ideas of Mordecai Kaplan and the historic Reconstructionist movement. We are deeply distressed by the revelations from former students … More Beit Kaplan Statement Supporting Pro-Israel Students who withdrew from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College:

Conservative Rabbis Pass Transgender Welcoming Resolution

April 20, 2017

Earlier this month an influential body of rabbis passed a resolution calling for synagogues to be “explicitly welcoming” of transgender people. As the country debates which bathrooms transgender people can use, the rabbis of Conservative Judaism officially declared their support of transgender rights. The Conservative movement is comprised of institutions including congregations, schools, camps and seminaries worldwide. The Rabbinical … More Conservative Rabbis Pass Transgender Welcoming Resolution

On Passover LA Police Arrest Rabbis Protesting Immigration Persecution

April 14, 2017

On the third day of Passover in downtown Los Angeles, 35 Rabbis, Priests, and Muslim activists — in a coalition of local faith-based groups were arrested for an act of civil disobedience. In protest of the Trump administration’s inhumane efforts to tear immigrant families apart, these leaders physically blocked the entrance to the local detention … More On Passover LA Police Arrest Rabbis Protesting Immigration Persecution