Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Mega-Donor Throws Clout Behind Hebrew Charter School
Mega-philanthropist Michael Steinhardt is giving a big bump to the effort to create a national network of publicly funded Hebrew schools by putting his money behind an effort to open a Hebrew-language charter school in New York City. A group of individuals with financial backing from the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life is planning to…
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News ORT America Accused In Labor Battle
The American branch of ORT, the massive international vocational-training organization, is being accused by its employees of union busting and of negotiating in bad faith. Union members said that their main complaint is a so-called “management rights” provision that would allow ORT America to fire union employees without a grievance procedure and to replace them…
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News Rabbis Pass Living Wage Measure
The Conservative movement’s policy body on Jewish law has passed a legal opinion arguing that Jewish employers should pay their workers a living wage and strive to hire union workers. The opinion, written by Jill Jacobs, a rabbi in residence at Jewish Funds for Justice, was passed by the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law…
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Breaking News Steinhardt-Backed Effort Seeks To Open New York Hebrew Charter School
See an updated and expanded version of this article here. The foundation of mega-philanthropist Michael Steinhardt is financing an effort to open the first Hebrew-language charter school in New York City. A group of individuals with financial backing from the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life is prepared to submit an application on June 4 to…
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News Secular Court Called on To Enforce Beth Din Ruling
A prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi is at the center of a case being taken to secular court on the grounds that his organization ignored the ruling of a rabbinical court in a contract dispute. A former employee of Ohr Torah Stone, which was founded by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, has filed suit against the organization in…
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News Evangelical Group Cuts Off Donations to Jewish Agency
A group that directs evangelical Christian donations to Jewish causes has cut off funding to the Jewish Agency for Israel, imperiling a controversial partnership agreement that was signed only months ago. At the beginning of this month, as the JTA first reported, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews withheld a scheduled $1.5 million contribution…
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News Jewish Newspaper Accused of Kowtowing
A controversy over the renaming of a Philadelphia-area day school is raising questions about the delicate relationship between the local Jewish newspaper and the federation that funds it. Alumni of the former Akiba Hebrew Academy, the country’s oldest community day school, have been up in arms over the school’s decision last year to accept $5…
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News Plan To House Two N.Y. Shuls Erupts Into Feud
Plans to establish a downtown Manhattan outpost of the famously insular Brooklyn Syrian Jewish community are falling victim to an intra-community business deal gone bad — a mess that has sparked controversy within Brooklyn’s Sephardic community and embroiled a storied Ashkenazic congregation as well. According to lawsuits filed in New York State Supreme Court, the…
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