Nineteen Reconstructionist rabbis are forming their own group partly to protest the movement’s recent decision to allow intermarried rabbis. In a statement Thursday, the rabbis announced the formation of Beit Kaplan-the Rabbinic Partnership for Jewish Peoplehood, which they described as an “educational consortium and resource for rabbis, congregations, and lay people wishing to continue the…
Abraham Fekete, 55, had dozed off on a bench when, just before 3:30 a.m., he was attacked by an unidentified man, who slashed his neck, arm and hands before running away with his cash, according to police. JP Updates first reported the news. Police said Fekete, dressed in traditional Hasidic clothing, had been traveling from…
Twenty Reconstructionist Rabbis at the center of a debate over whether spiritual leaders should be allowed to marry outside the Jewish faith have formed a new association to “affirm a serious commitment to traditional Jewish thought and practice.” It’s caled : The Rabbinic Partnership for Jewish Peoplehood, and news of its formation was announced Thursday…
(JTA) — Over two dozen philanthropists and organizations have pledged to fund only Jewish day camps and schools taking “adequate steps to prevent, report, and investigate sexual abuse of minors.” The was introduced on Sunday, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported Wednesday. Some of its most prominent signees include Lynn Schusterman, co-founder and co-chairwoman of…
A former SS guard died a week before he was scheduled to go on trial for his alleged role in the murder of more than 1,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Ernest Tremmel’s death was announced Thursday, The Jerusalem Post . Tremmel, 93, was scheduled to go on trial in Hanau,…
Ahead of the presidential primaries in New York, Ted Cruz helped Jewish children make matzo in Brooklyn. At the Chabad-run Model Matzo Bakery in Brighton Beach Thursday evening, the Texas senator and Republican presidential hopeful led some 15 children in making the unleavened Passover bread, singing “roll, roll, roll the matzah dough.” WATCH: @TedCruz makes…
(JTA) — An Israeli rabbi who has been on the run to avoid extradition back to Israel on sex abuse charges has been arrested in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rabbi Eliezer Berland, 78, has been hiding out in South Africa for the past nearly eight months with several of his followers. Since the accusations in 2012,…
(JTA) – A synagogue in Buenos Aires will host the first official same-sex Jewish marriage held in a synagogue in Latin America. The synagogue and Jewish community center NCI-Emanu El and the LGTB organization Judios Argentinos Gay (Jews Argentinian Gays), or JAG, announced Wednesday that the assembly of NCI last month unanimously approved a request…
(JTA) — The southern German town of Tegernsee has revoked the honorary citizenship granted 83 years ago to Adolf Hitler. The 16 members of the Tegernsee city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to strip Hitler of the honor bestowed upon him in 1933, when he was named chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg, the Tegernsee…
(JTA) The Labour Party candidate in London’s mayoral race, a Muslim, said he is “embarrassed” and “sorrowful” about his party’s failure to take on anti-Semitism. Sadiq Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, said Tuesday in a speech at a London Jewish community center that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn needs to be “trained about what anti-Semitism…
(JTA) — A 92-year-old man who survived seven different German concentration camps participated in a question and answer session, detailing his harrowing near-death to liberation story. Henry Flescher, who now lives in Aventura, Florida and had not heard of the social news-sharing site Reddit before the session earlier this week, participated in the forum with the…
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