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Opinion Should Al Franken Resign?
Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline.
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Opinion We Asked 23 Rabbis: What Is The Diaspora Jew’s Role In Israel?
As a part of our Rabbi Roundtable series, we brought together leading rabbis from all corners of the Jewish world to offer their thoughts on the big questions. This week, we asked our rabbis, “What is the Diaspora Jew’s role vis a vis Israel?” Here are their responses: Uri Pilichowski, Orthodox, Yeshivat Migdal Hatorah: I…
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Opinion We Asked 25 Rabbis: What Is One Thing Jews Need To Stop Doing?
As a part of our Rabbi Roundtable series, we brought together leading rabbis from all corners of the Jewish world to offer their thoughts on the big questions. This week, we asked our rabbis, “What is one thing Jews should stop doing?” Here are their responses: Jill Jacobs , Conservative, T’ruah: The Jewish community should…
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Life Swipe Right On Your Dream Job: This Israeli-Made App Is Tinder For Job Search
It’s LinkedIn meets Tinder. New Israeli app Workey, based in Tel Aviv, is an app that connects job-seekers with recruiters, using the same model as a dating app. When you register, a chatbot asks a series of questions about your job and professional aspirations, and asks you to upload your resume or connect the app…
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Opinion Is it ever OK to make Holocaust jokes?
Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline.
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The Schmooze An Editor’s Note About Bryan Singer
Our source for an aggregated story published about ‘X-Men’ director Bryan Singer, was Yahoo News. When they took their story down we removed ours, too, as we could not independently confirm the sources originally cited.
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Forward 50 2017 Jill Soloway
The TV Trailblazer Who Refuses To Conform Jill Soloway writes, produces and directs not one but two television series, both critically successful and reflective of Soloway’s own queer, feminist ethos. “Transparent,” the offbeat, profoundly Jewish Amazon series that made Soloway a multiple Emmy winner and a household name among television buffs, has recently been renewed…
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Forward 50 2017 Amichai Lau-Lavie
The Intermarriage Innovator Asking The Tough Questions Should a rabbi be permitted to marry a Jew and a non-Jew? This year, that question roiled the Conservative movement as it struggled to balance its embrace of modernity with the strictures of Jewish law and tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie put a face, and a proposal, to that…
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