BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Rabbi Rick Jacobs on June 9 was installed as president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest movement of Jews in North America.
Jacobs, 56, succeeds Rabbi Eric Yoffie, who held the post for 16 years and made the transition official when he handed Jacobs a Torah at a service at a historic Brooklyn synagogue.
The Reform movement, which includes more than 900 American and Canadian synagogues and takes a less traditional approach than Conservative or Orthodox Judaism, has had trouble retaining younger members.
The gospel choir from Greater Centennial African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church, a Mount Vernon, N.Y., congregation that has close ties to Westchester Reform Temple in nearby Scarsdale, N.Y., where Jacobs was senior rabbi, will participate.
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