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Fast Forward Orthodox leaders: Supreme Court ruling will boost religious schools far beyond Maine
Orthodox leaders applauded Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a state program that provides tuition for other private schools. The decision, they predicted, could boost Jewish schools in other states where public dollars are currently not allowed to go toward religious school tuition and programs. In the 6-3 ruling, Chief…
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Business-funded Super PAC claims victory over AOC-backed candidates in NY primaries
A New York-based Super PAC funded by real estate and finance executives that bolstered incumbents over challengers backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is celebrating after this week’s statewide primaries. Of the 10 candidates the progressive congresswoman endorsed, only two insurgents won their races. Juan Ardila, an activist who in the past posted racist and antisemitic…
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Interfaith peace group gets first Jewish executive director after 107 years
A religiously based nonviolent activist group whose past leaders helped spark the civil rights movement has named a Jewish executive director for the first time in its 107-year history. Ariel Gold, currently the national co-director and Middle East policy analyst for CODEPINK Women for Peace, will lead the interfaith Fellowship of Reconciliation beginning August 1….
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Avodah denies pressure caused it to fire anti-Zionist activist
Avodah, a Jewish social justice organization, fired a prominent anti-Zionist activist following an online campaign targeting the group over its decision to hire her. Anna Rajagopal, a Houston college student, announced Wednesday that Avodah had fired her and blamed StopAntisemitism.org, which published a blog post last week calling Rajagopal, who uses both they and she…
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Bernie Sanders went to ‘war’ with AIPAC. Now the pro-Israel lobby is pushing back.
The American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) pushed back Thursday against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ criticism of their multi-million dollar spending in the Democratic congressional primaries against progressive candidates. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont and a progressive firebrand, had declared “war” in May on the pro-Israel lobby for intervening in high stakes primaries that resulted…
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‘Mom, I think I’m gay’: 4 young Orthodox Jews share their coming out stories
Queer students at Yeshiva University, Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship institution of higher education, often describe it as an uncomfortable place. Many say they have heard homophobic slurs on its campus in upper Manhattan. And the university has long denied recognition to the Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group, prompting members and alumni to file a lawsuit…
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Former Ohio National Guardsman accused of threatening Jewish school charged with selling ghost guns
A former Ohio National Guard member charged with making terrorist threats against a Jewish day school in Columbus, Ohio, where he worked as a security guard now faces federal gun charges for making and selling ghost guns, untraceable firearms that lack a serial number. The federal charges against Thomas Develin, in a search warrant unsealed…
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Fast Forward Chuppah dreams: NBA star Kevin Love married in Jewish ceremony
This Jewish wedding posed an unusual challenge: the chuppah needed to clear the high-profile groom’s 6-foot-10 frame. Kevin Love, the former UCLA basketball star and veteran forward of the Cleveland Cavaliers, married Jewish supermodel Kate Bock over the weekend in a ceremony at the New York Public Library officiated by his agent, Jeff Schwartz. The…
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After Roe: How Jewish groups in states with abortion bans are responding
Reeling from last week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a synagogue in Missouri, one of nine states where abortion is now totally banned, set up a fund to help people needing to travel to terminate pregnancies. Within hours of it being established on Sunday, a woman asked for help, and members of the congregation volunteered to…
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Fast Forward Lennie Rosenbluth, forefather to North Carolina hoops legends, dead at 89
Before there was Worthy, Vince or even Michael, there was Lennie, a rangy Jewish kid from the Bronx. Behind Lennie Rosenbluth, who died last week on June 18 at 89, the University of North Carolina stampeded through college basketball. When the Tar Heels ran the table to their first NCAA Championship in 1957, it was…
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David Weiss Halivni, pioneering and sometimes controversial Talmudist, dies at 94
(JTA) — Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, a theologian, beloved teacher and pioneering and sometimes controversial scholar of Talmud, died Wednesday at age 94 in Israel. A Holocaust survivor, Halivni earned his doctorate and taught for many years at the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, until leaving the institution in 1983 over its…
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Jewish New Yorker once known as city’s ‘most desperate single man’ gets married
Seven years ago, the New York Post dubbed Yossi Rosenberg the “most desperate single man” in New York City. This week, he stood under the huppah with the love of his life. Rosenberg, 42, an e-commerce worker and New York University graduate, married Ivy Branin, 42, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, on Tuesday. Rosenberg earned…
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