Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Scholars Rally Around Embattled Professor
An employment dispute at a Midwestern state university has bubbled into a national cause célèbre in the world of Jewish studies, drawing in some of the field’s leading lights. The University of Cincinnati’s decision to discipline and attempt to fire Mark Raider, a tenured professor of modern Jewish history and, until recently, chairman of the…
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News Conservatives Get New Leader Amid Calls for Overhaul
Conservative Judaism is being roiled by potentially tectonic changes that could lead to both new leadership for the movement and structural changes in how the movement’s organizations work. After a months-long search, the movement’s congregational arm, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, has selected Steven Wernick, 41, a Philadelphia area rabbi, as its new executive…
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News Coalition Seeks Overhaul of Conservative Movement
Some of the most prominent figures in Conservative Judaism are demanding a meeting with the leadership of the movement’s congregational arm to discuss a major overhaul of the way the troubled movement functions. In a letter addressed to Ray Goldstein, international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, a coalition of more than 50…
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News Jewish Nonprofits Cautiously Push Back on Obama Tax Proposal
In the short time that Barack Obama has served as America’s president, the organized Jewish community has been one of the young administration’s most solid bases of support for its liberal political agenda. But now, many of the major Jewish organizations are taking issue with a proposal that they fear will strike at their very…
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Culture Elders of Zion to Retire
The Elders of Zion, the venerable and shadowy Jewish organization that controls the international banking industry, news media and Hollywood, has announced that it is disbanding so that members can retire to Florida and live out their golden years on the golf course. “We had a good run,” said one senior Elder, reminiscing over old…
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News Torah 2.0: Old-Line Publisher Brings Biblical Commentary Into Online World
America’s oldest Jewish publisher has embarked on a project to bring the study of Judaism’s most ancient texts into the digital age. The Jewish Publication Society, a 120-year-old organization devoted to publishing ancient and modern texts on Jewish subjects, has begun work on a project to publish the Jewish Bible, or Tanakh, as an electronic,…
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News Hebrew College’s Big Plans Yield Big Debts
Outside the office of Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, president of Hebrew College, is a model of the original design for the college’s Newton, Mass., campus, created by star architect Moshe Safdie. Only half the campus has been built. Asked if the school plans to build the other half, Lehmann chuckled. “Yeah, right,” he responded. Safdie’s model…
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News Madoff’s Lawyer Plays Both Sides of the Court
There is perhaps no man in America as reviled and scrutinized as Bernard Madoff, the investor who has reportedly confessed to bilking investors out of some $50 billion. Hoards of photographers have made a habit of amassing outside his Upper East Side apartment building and the federal courthouse for his brief and occasional appearances. But…
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