Sue Fishkoff (JTA)
By Sue Fishkoff (JTA)
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Fast Forward Jewish Men’s Clubs Push for a Revival
When Mitchell Ross was a boy, he remembers his grandfather hanging out with the men’s club at his Conservative synagogue. “I always felt it was something older Jewish men were involved in, the over-60s club,” said Ross, a 39-year-old cardiologist in Phoenix, Ariz. Today, Ross is active in his own men’s club at Har Zion…
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Fast Forward Following Ramah Death, Jewish Camps Review Safety Practices
It’s the nightmare of every parent – and every teacher, youth leader and camp director. When a child dies in an accident while in someone else’s care, the agonizing questions begin: Could we have done anything different? Were all the proper procedures followed? And above all, how can we keep children safe while still ensuring…
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Fast Forward Synagogues Offer Hefty Loans, Grants To Lure Young Families
They were looking to move anyway, said Stephanie Butler. And the $50,000 incentive being offered by Temple Emanu-El in Dothan, Ala., to young Jewish families willing to relocate helped tip the scales. “We never would have looked at Dothan if not for this program,” she said. The Reform congregation in Dothan is one of several…
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Fast Forward Young Israelis Turn To Yiddish
Nufal Levanon, a 25-year-old student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, says she rarely heard Yiddish growing up, although her Romanian-born parents both were native speakers of the language. “They’d call each other ‘ziskele,’ my sweetie, but that’s about it,” Levanon recalls. Meira Goodman, 24, only became interested in Yiddish after her Czech-born grandmother died…
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Fast Forward Jews of Color Gather To Explore, Celebrate Identity
Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, resembles her Chinese father more than her Jewish mother. She’s been Jewish her whole life, but she’s used to walking into synagogues and having people ask who she’s with, as if she didn’t belong there of her own accord. Her oldest daughter, Ruby, 24, looks like the Jewish…
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Fast Forward Conservative Rabbi Files Suit Challenging Georgia’s Kosher Laws
A Conservative rabbi in Georgia is challenging the constitutionality of his state’s kosher law, saying it favors Orthodox religious standards and constitutes state entanglement in religion. The case follows the overturning of similar kosher laws in two other states and the city of Baltimore. It also comes at a time of growing public interest in…
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Fast Forward Women Kosher Supervisors on the Rise
Evelyn Prizont does it for the glamor. “And the respect,” she adds with a smirk. Prizont, an Orthodox woman in her early 40s, is a mashgicha, a female kosher supervisor in Seattle. Under contract with the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, she spends her days poking around commercial kitchens, making sure kosher laws are observed…
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Fast Forward Birthright Alums Report Limited Participation in Jewish Life
Nearly 160,000 young Jews from North America have taken part in Taglit-Birthright Israel, a 10-day free Israel trip aimed at revving up their Jewish identities. Of those no longer in college, only half have attended any Jewish event since their return. That’s one of the findings of “Tourists, Travelers and Citizens,” a new report by…
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