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Opinion Choosing Life, and Change
The Rabbinical Council of America, the leading body of Modern Orthodox rabbis, took a bold step last week with the issuance of a legal ruling that categorically bans smoking as a violation of the Torah. The council’s boldness is not in accepting four decades of mounting medical evidence, but in letting the findings of modern…
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News DER YIDDISH-VINKL
Stanley Siegelman returns to Der Vinkl with his incredible ability to uncover rare bits of news and to follow up with his hilarious Yiddish and English commentary. Here’s the news item, as he describes it: “Saudi King Abdullah has instructed newspaper editors to stop printing photos of women in which their faces are revealed. He…
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Culture MUSICAL NOSTALGIA
Set in the United States in the early 20th century, Stephen Flaherty’s 1998 Tony Award-winning musical, “Ragtime,” interweaves stories of a wealthy Protestant family; a poor Jewish immigrant and his daughter, and an educated black musician from Harlem, the woman he loves and their child. Based on E.L. Doctorow’s novel of the same name, the…
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Culture METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
Exhibit ‘Layers of Time’: Artist Marty Greenbaum’s series of colorful mixed media, titled Recent Work: Layers of Time, is presented in a group exhibition at the Safe-T-Gallery in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. Greenbaum’s work appears with pieces by artists Daniel Blochwitz, Susan Bowen, Roger Bruhn and Burst387. Safe-T-Gallery, 11 Front St., Ste 214, Brooklyn; through July…
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Israel News Buy Him a Subscription!
From the moment that Arnold Eisen was named chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in April, grumbling began over the prospect of a nonrabbi assuming the helm of the Conservative movement’s main rabbinical school. Only recently, however, did Conservative rabbis begin wrestling with the all-important question of whether to permit Eisen to join…
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