Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Ex-Yeshiva Head Outs Himself, Leaves Fold
A former principal of one of New York’s most illustrious Modern Orthodox high schools has announced that he is gay and no longer an Orthodox Jew. Rabbi Alan Stadtmauer, 42, stepped down as head of the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School in June, after serving as a teacher and administrator for more than a decade….
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News Organization Helps the Visually-impaired Feel Their Way Into the New Year
There is not a spot of ink on the pages of one of the High Holy Day prayer books produced by David Toiv’s nonprofit organization, the Jewish Heritage for the Blind — just line after line of raised bumps. The prayer book, which is in Braille, has been distributed free of charge for more than…
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News A Community’s Trials: Cop Mans Post as Grandmother Is Buried
JACKSON, Miss. — Almost a third of New Orleans police officers walked off the job last week in the face of violent looters, fetid floodwaters and infernal heat — but Brian Weiss stayed at his post. Weiss, 43, a lieutenant with more than 22 years of service, survived day-to-day after Hurricane Katrina ripped through a…
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News School Boots Teachers’ Union, Fueling A Debate Among Conservative Rabbis
Just days before the start of classes this week, the trustees of a Conservative Jewish day school in suburban Detroit pulled the plug on its teachers’ union. The controversial move followed an August 16 decision by the State of Michigan Court of Appeals, which said that teachers in religious schools throughout the state do not…
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News Orthodox Union Riles Working Moms
The country’s largest Orthodox organization posted an essay on its Web site last week that sharply criticized working mothers. “Let’s shatter the myth [of] a mother who works outside of the home,” Sara Malka Poupko Reichman wrote in an essay titled “Diary of a Professional Mother,” which was posted on the homepage of the Orthodox…
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Israel News Duncan Hines Goes Dairy, Time-pressed Bakers Rise Up
Baking from the box is about to get a bit harder for the world’s kosher cooks. Duncan Hines, the only commercial brand of pareve, or nondairy, cake mixes, recently announced that it will add milk-based ingredients to its products in the fall, according to the industry newspaper Kosher Today. The decision has spurred some members…
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News Pope Denounces Antisemitism During Synagogue Visit
As Pope Benedict XVI paid a historic visit last week to a synagogue in Cologne, Germany, and laid out his agenda for the future of Catholic-Jewish relations, his Jewish partners in dialogue were settling an internal skirmish over titles and authority. Despite the jockeying, Jewish leaders found time to praise Benedict’s speech, which included a…
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Culture Orthodox Schools Tackle Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Rifka used to believe that Judaism would insulate her from the addictions that plagued her father. The child of a Christian father and a Jewish mother who divorced when she was a small child, she enrolled in an Orthodox day school with the support of her mother, became devoutly observant and threw himself into community…
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