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Histories Again Collide On the Hills of Jerusalem
Silwan — known in biblical times as Shiloach — is a sprawling neighborhood a five-minute walk from the Western Wall at the southern entrance to the Kidron Valley. Today it is home to 55,000 Palestinians and 450 Jews who are concentrated in the section of the neighborhood closest to the Old City, Wadi Hilwah. Clashes…
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Jewish LGBT Leaders Meet, But Can’t Yet Find a Vision Shared by All
A social justice activist from Oakland, Calif. A party planner from New York. The leader of a small havurah in Detroit. These were some of the 93 people who were invited to Berkeley, Calif., to help build a more cohesive movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews. This first-ever gathering, held in late June,…
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In Memorializing a Pogrom, Poles Learn About Themselves
For many Jews, the city of Kielce is remembered as the brutal end of the centuries long encounter between Poles and Jews. It was here, on July 4 1946 that local Poles set upon a group of Holocaust refugees trying to rebuild their shattered lives, killing not just these victims but also any hope that…
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No More Vodka Jokes: Russian Comics Have a New, Funny Side
It is Friday evening in Midtown Manhattan, and Oleg Boksner, aka Alec Fly, is standing on a small wooden stage in the basement of the Broadway Comedy Club. He’s wearing a Russian fur hat with a communist badge on the front, and mimicking a grumpy immigrant from the former Soviet Union. “Kheer, khav potato,” he…
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Rabbi of Historic Orthodox Synagogue Overturns Decision To Let Women Lead
The historic Bialystoker Synagogue, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, looked set to launch a new era this past June: For the first time, the Orthodox congregation was prepared to allow a woman to run for a position on its board. But the synagogue members’ vote to do so has been overturned by the congregation’s rabbi,…
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Newly Ordained Find the 2010 Spiritual Job Market a Tough Place To Sell Their Wares
CORRECTION APPENDED Last fall, Rabbi Lennard Thal gave an uncharacteristic warning to senior rabbinical students at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the seminary that trains Reform rabbis: Consider options other than the pulpit for your rabbinic career. Thal heads the Reform movement’s Joint Commission on Rabbinic Placement. His advice reflected the failure of an…
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Religious Bridge Builders
Tanenbaum Honors Papal Nuncio and Other Religious Bridge Builders While welcoming the guests to the June 17 Mark H. Tanenbaum Award Ceremony & Memorial Lecture, held at the Pierre, founder and president Georgette Bennett articulated the Tanenbaum Foundation’s mission: “… to confront and overcome the horrors [perpetrated] in the name of religion.” In a lighter…
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Predicting the Future Is All in a Day’s Work
Noticeably mild-mannered and unassuming, David Passig sits down at his kitchen table, pours a glass of apple juice and states matter-of-factly that he will now predict the future: a second term for Obama. Another decade of recession. Two global confrontations (one with America and Turkey facing Russia, around 2020, and another between America and Turkey,…
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Pinchas: The Gender Question
“Do big girls have bikes without training wheels?” my daughter Hannah asked me, as she rode her tricycle. Hannah knew that her brother’s bike didn’t have training wheels, but she wasn’t sure why. Hannah is three, and her brother Jeremy is six. She knows that she can’t do some of the activities he can, but…
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Israel’s Stealth Foreign Minister
On June 8, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman made a trip to the United States. He met leaders of the Jewish community, attended the opening ceremony of a community center in New York, briefed Israeli diplomats and returned to Jerusalem without making a stop in Washington. During his two-day trip, Lieberman did not meet any…
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Grow and Behold
When Naftali Hanau graduated from New York University with an economics degree, he left prepared for a career in banking or investing. But the Rochester, N.Y., native chose a different path: one that likely includes more feathers and trucks than those of his fellow alumni. This July, Hanau’s company, Grow and Behold Foods, will launch…
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