Uriel Heilman (JTA)
By Uriel Heilman (JTA)
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Fast Forward Rabbi Barry Freundel Taped Sex Encounters With ‘Several’ Women
In addition to secretly recording women undressing for the mikvah ritual bath, Rabbi Barry Freundel engaged in sexual encounters with several women, according to prosecutors. That’s one of several new details about the mikvah-peeping rabbi to emerge from two documents filed in D.C. Superior Court on May 8 — one each by the prosecution and…
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Opinion 10 Things About Jews in New Pew Study
The Pew Research Center’s newly released 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study offers a trove of data on American Jews based on interviews with 35,071 American adults, 847 of whom identified their faith as Jewish. Here are some of the more interesting findings about the Jews. We’re highly educated! There are more American Jews with two…
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Culture There’s a British Royal Buried in Jerusalem — And 9 Other Things You May Not Know About Israel
JTA) — Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, falls on April 23. In honor of the Jewish state’s 67th birthday, we present, in no particular order, 10 little-known aspects of its history. 1) El Al used to fly to Tehran. Iran and Israel enjoyed mostly good relations up until the Islamic revolution that overthrew the shah…
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News Asher Lopatin Seeks To Secure YCT’s Place
When Rabbi Asher Lopatin takes over the helm of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah next summer, he may try to pull off something of a football move at the Modern Orthodox rabbinical school: Look left while going right. In the 12 years since Rabbi Avi Weiss founded the school as a more liberal, pulpit-focused alternative to Yeshiva…
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Fast Forward Is the Era of National Surveys of American Jews at an End?
Twenty years ago, an alarming statistic in a landmark survey of American Jews helped galvanize a generation of Jewish community professionals and philanthropists to change the way they think about Jewish identity programming and double their efforts at Jewish outreach. With time, however, that statistic from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey – that American…
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Fast Forward Charges Filed in $42.5 Million Claims Conference Fraud
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York is announcing charges against 17 people for participating in a $42.5 million fraud at the Claims Conference. Details of the charges will be disclosed at a 1 p.m. news conference Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Officials at the Claims Conference, which…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Hints at Flexibility on Jerusalem
It was an otherwise wholly unremarkable stump speech before a friendly audience in New York. On Wednesday evening at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, the Israeli prime minister addressed a roomful of more than 300 Jews on the subjects of Iran, his government’s eagerness for direct peace talks with the Palestinians and the swell meeting he had…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu, Sworn In as Prime Minister, Faces Balancing Act
The warnings from Israeli pundits and foreign observers alike came almost as soon as Israeli President Shimon Peres picked Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli next government. The message was clear: Don’t forsake the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace and risk isolating Israel on the world stage. So when Netanyahu addressed the Knesset at…
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