Harvey Stein
By Harvey Stein
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Opinion Family of the Wall
Comedian Sarah Silverman is known for her outrageous shtick. But her sister, Rabbi Susan Silverman, and niece, Hallel, have become leading members of the Israeli activist group Women of the Wall, which fights for women’s rights to pray as they see fit at the Western Wall. The Silvermans are well known for their involvement in…
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Israel News Rabbi Menachem Froman’s Unique Legacy of Jewish-Muslim Coexistence
Rabbi Menachem Froman, who died Monday at age 68, was an absolute original. He was a founding member of the hardline settler group Gush Emunim who lived as a settler himself in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; yet he was a man who cultivated contacts with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist organization designated as a terrorist group…
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