Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Judge Rules States Must Fund Religious Schools
A ruling by an influential federal judge could open the door for more government funding of religious education. In a unanimous decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, dated July 23, federal judge Michael McConnell ruled that the state of Colorado could not bar state scholarship funds from going to educational institutions that are…
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News Kosher Fight Turns Rabbis on Each Other
The delicate relationship between Jewish ethics and Jewish ritual might seem like a topic for careful rabbinic disputation, but lately, the arguments coming out of the pulpit have sounded more like a bare-knuckled brawl. Over the past few weeks, the debate spurred by labor conditions at the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse has reached a fevered…
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Culture New Egalitarian Yeshiva Prepares To Go Full Time
On a recent weekday summer morning on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the second floor of West End Synagogue was buzzing. Thirty-six students, divided into pairs, clustered around tables, poring over open Talmuds. Some of the beginners flipped through lexicons, trying to puzzle out obscure words, while more advanced students debated that day’s text and compared…
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News Slaughterhouse Accused of Child Labor Violations
The Iowa labor commissioner’s office is accusing the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse of 57 separate cases of child labor violations, including allegations that teenagers working at the plant used dangerous tools and chemicals. Officials in the labor commissioner’s office said that a months-long investigation of Agriprocessors had resulted in cases involving 57 individuals, aged 14…
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News Orthodox Leaders Tour Agriprocessors, Give Plant Clean Bill of Health
A group of Orthodox leaders returned from a company-sponsored tour of a kosher slaughterhouse that has been under fire for its working conditions. The rabbis reported that the plant was clean and the workers happy. On July 31, a group of 25 Orthodox rabbis and community leaders visited the Agriprocessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, at…
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News Ad Hoc Outreach Effort May Hinder McCain’s Bid for Communal Vote
In a year when polls suggest that Senator John McCain is positioned to garner more Jewish votes than any Republican candidate in the past two decades, his campaign is attempting to woo Jewish voters with a small, decentralized operation that critics are charging has no single address. In contrast to the corporate discipline of George…
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News Orthodox Leaders To Visit Controversial Slaughterhouse
Just days after a protest at the site of the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, a group of Orthodox rabbis and community leaders will be visiting the plant in Iowa on July 31. Agriprocessors, Inc., the country’s largest provider of kosher meat, is paying for a delegation of Orthodox rabbis and community leaders to visit the…
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News Blogger Focuses on Orthodox Foibles
Picking up the phone at 4:30 in the afternoon, Shmarya Rosenberg answered in a voice still bleary from sleep. He explained that he was just napping after having blogged the whole night, and most of the morning. “It’s hard to do one of these blogs,” Rosenberg said. “It owns you. It’s terrible. If I had…
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