Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Female Torah Scribe Lives Off the Land, Religiously
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – This idyllic town near the Adirondack Mountains is better known for horse racing than for holiness; visitors flock here to bathe in mineral springs rather than in mikvehs. But for Rabbi Linda Motzkin, Saratoga Springs has proved to be ideal for something more unexpected: the sacred work of writing a Torah….
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News Jewish Agency Gives Boardroom Clout to Ally of Evangelicals
About a decade ago, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel refused to be photographed taking a check from Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. This past week, the agency accepted a hefty donation from the evangelical-backed organization and offered Eckstein a seat on two of…
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News Ethiopians Face Unclear Future as Immigration Ends
A medical clinic in Ethiopia that emerged as an icon of the Jewish rescue effort in the country will close its doors next month, leading relief organizations to wonder about the future of those who remain in the country. The clinic, which was set up in 1990, emerged as the de facto capital of the…
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News Intermarriage Study Muddies Waters
A research project is offering a new view on how interfaith couples raise their children, with a few major surprises. The new overview, published in the 2007 American Jewish Yearbook, compares the rates at which intermarried couples in different cities raise Jewish children. It comes on the heels of a study of the Jewish population…
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News Reform Commentary Spotlights Women
The Reform movement is rolling out a new critical commentary on the Torah, written entirely by women scholars. The new tome combines a number of diverse elements, including biblical scholarship, poetry and entries that focus on how women’s issues are dealt with in Scripture. “The Torah: A Women’s Commentary,” published by the Union for Reform…
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Israel News Eternally Green
With Hanukkah putting everyone’s mind on the subject of efficient lighting — and oil shortages — two New York City congregations have jumped onto the green-building bandwagon by connecting their eternal lights to solar power. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan and Union Temple in Brooklyn recently became the first two synagogues in New York City…
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News Reform Conference Reaches Out to Muslims, Evangelicals
The head of the largest Muslim organization in the country is expected to address the national gathering of North America’s largest Jewish denomination at its annual conference next week. The speech is part of a broader push at the conference to elevate interfaith dialogue with Muslims and Christians. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society…
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News Study Finds Intermarriage Peak in Maine
In Portland, Maine, even the editor of the local Jewish newspaper was born to intermarried parents, and when she got around to marrying, it was not to a Jew. Given her own experience, Elizabeth Margolis-Pineo, editor of The Voice, the local Jewish newspaper, was not surprised by a new demographic study that found Portland and…
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