Gary Rosenblatt
By Gary Rosenblatt
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David Harris, stepping down after 32 years as head of the American Jewish Committee, looks back at the Soviet Jewry movement that shaped him
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Fast Forward Another woman joins sexual abuse lawsuit against Orthodox groups that employed Baruch Lanner
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Hours before the deadline for New Jersey’s “lookback” law, a fifth plaintiff and a fourth defendant were added to a civil lawsuit that was filed earlier this week against the Orthodox Union; its youth arm, the National Conference of Synagogue Youth; and Rabbi Baruch Lanner, a…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Union and its youth group sued over past abuse by Baruch Lanner, rabbi convicted of sexually abusing teenage students
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — More than two decades after publication of allegations that Rabbi Baruch Lanner abused teens in his charge for more than 30 years, four of his victims are seeking their day in court. The four women, now middle aged and older, filed a lawsuit today with the…
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News Don’t call them ‘fringe’: Innovative Jewish groups seek respect from the mainstream
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Keshira haLev Fife is well known in the Jewish community of her native Pittsburgh, where she conducts Shabbat services and Hebrew school classes. But she’s not your average prayer leader or educator. As a self-described “proud Jewish woman of color,” she said she “sprinkles, sparkles, disrupts expectations and…
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