An Update on Israel's Ritual Baths
This post originally appeared on the Israel Religious Action Center's newsletter, The Pluralist.
The fourth book of the Torah has different names in English (“Numbers”) and Hebrew (“Bamidbar” - “In the Desert”).
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BDS Faces Setbacks in Faith and Academic Organizations
For a number of years, activists seeking to damage Israel’s legitimacy and standing in the world have mounted a campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction the Jewish state.
Reform Leader Opposes Troubling Israeli "NGO Bill"
Washington, D.C., June 6, 2016 – In response to legislation under consideration by the Israeli Knesset that would require non-profits that recover foreign funds to declare themselves as foreign agents, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
The Core of the Matter: The Future of Jerusalem
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