Steven I. Weiss
By Steven I. Weiss
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News Hasidic Village Keeps Women Out of the Driver’s Seat
Even as the White House presses Saudi Arabia to permit women to drive, an ultra-Orthodox community in New York has launched a campaign to reassert its ban on female motorists. During her trip last month to Saudi Arabia, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes delivered a speech in which she stressed the Bush administration’s determination to…
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News Guantanamo Servicemen To Get Holiday Services
Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay may not give Rosh Hashanah a second thought. But if all goes as planned, a rabbi will visit servicemen stationed at the American base as the Jewish New Year begins. Rabbi Melinda Zalma, a newly minted chaplain for the U.S. Navy, will be the sole chaplain during the High Holy…
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News ‘Improved’ Edition of Banned Book on Rabbis Released
Nearly three years after his book on famous rabbis, “Making of a Godol,” was subject to a high-profile ultra-Orthodox ban, Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky has released a revised version of the self-published work. In his first interview since the ban was instituted, Kamenetsky told the Forward that he had “improved and ran through people of caliber…everything…
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News College Columnist Fired Over Call for Profiling
A Jewish undergraduate at the University of North Carolina has been booted from the student newspaper after writing a column in defense of racial profiling. “I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport,” 20-year-old junior Jillian Bandes wrote in a column that appeared in…
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Israel News Yeshiva Grad Leads Mac Attack
Aham-laden breakfast sandwich may not be the first thing one associates with a Yeshiva-trained mouth — particularly a mouth that rests Saturdays — but in a radio spot now in wide circulation, the link is as clear as day. “How’s that Egg McMuffin?” asks Sharon Feingold, a graduate of the Yeshiva High School of Atlanta….
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News Controversial Circumcision Rite Becomes Issue in Mayoral Race
The controversy over a disputed circumcision ritual could affect the mayor’s race in New York City, as some members of the Hasidic community are promising to protest any restrictions placed on the mohel in question. Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer has been the subject of an investigation by the city’s health department since three infants tested positive…
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News Long Island Proposal on Day Schools Draws Flak on Church-state Grounds
A series of proposals to slash Jewish day school tuition in suburban New York by using the public school system is igniting a debate on the cost of Jewish education. The measures also are drawing criticism from observers who say they would violate the Constitution on church-state grounds. The proposals are being promoted by two…
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News Former Nixon Aide ‘Pardoned’ By 2 Members of ‘Jewish Cabal’
Lucky for Republican fund raiser Fred Malek — and his bid to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team — Peter Henle and Harold Goldstein are more forgiving than Malek’s old boss, Richard Nixon. Henle and Goldstein were working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1971, when Nixon became convinced that a “Jewish cabal” was…
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