Judy Maltz
By Judy Maltz
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Israel News New Jersey Family to Pay Rabbis Shunned by Israeli Rabbinate
(Ha’aretz) — If the state of Israel won’t pay the salaries of rabbis of certain denominations, then we will. That, in a nutshell, is how one family from Livingston, New Jersey, hopes to foment a religious revolution in Israel. By providing a living wage to rabbis who are not eligible for state funding – and…
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Israel News How Russian Jews Fell in Love With Reform Movement in Israel
(Haaretz) — When worshippers arrive for Friday-night services at Israel’s newest Reform congregation, they don’t greet one another in Hebrew. Not in English either, as they would in some of the more established Reform congregations founded by Anglophone immigrants around the country. At this brand-new congregation in Tel Aviv suburb Ramat Gan, Russian rules. Not only…
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Israel News Genetics Expert Insists 75% of Jews Share Roots in Middle East
(Haaretz) — Where did the Jews originate? For Bennett Greenspan, the founder and president of Family Tree DNA, there’s little doubt, and it can all be proven with a swab of cheek cells. The overwhelming majority of Jews living today should be able to trace their roots back to the Middle East with a little…
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Fast Forward Non-Jews Play Growing Role in American Synagogues, Researcher Says
(Haaretz) — Non-Jews have come to assume prominent roles in Conservative and Reform synagogues around America, in some cases accounting for a relatively large share of congregation membership, according to a prominent Israeli-born scholar who has been studying the changing face of American synagogues in recent years. “Sometimes as many as half the people in a…
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Israel News Why Israel’s New Reform Congregations Shun ‘R’ Word
(Haaretz) — When the Reform movement recently opened its first congregation in the Negev capital of Be’er Sheva, its members had just one little request: They didn’t want to be called Reform. They’re not alone. Although the Reform movement has been making considerable inroads in Israeli society in recent years, it turns out its name still…
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News ‘Shadow Jews’ Outnumber Recognized Members of Tribe
(Haaretz) — The number of people who believe they are descendants of the Jews or the ancient Israelites about equals the number of known Jews, those who are counted in official international censuses, an expert on Judaizing movements says. Speaking at a Jerusalem conference, the British historian Tudor Parfitt suggested that what he called a…
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News ‘Birthright’ for Newlyweds? It’s Coming Soon.
(Haaretz) — Inspired by Taglit-Birthright’s free trips to Israel for college students, a brand new program will bring Jewish newlyweds from North America on heavily subsidized honeymoons to the Holy Land. The program, Honeymoon Israel, has just obtained initial funding to finance two pilot trips this spring, each of which will bring 20 couples on…
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Fast Forward Israeli Chief Rabbinate Will Review Rabbi Freundel’s Conversions
(Haaretz) — The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is reviewing the validity of conversions performed in recent years by Rabbi Barry Freundel, the Orthodox American rabbi charged with secretly filming women in his synagogue’s ritual bath, Haaretz has learned. “We are appalled by the accusations against Rabbi Barry Freundel and wish to stress that the acts attributed…
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