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How Modern Airport Security May Run Afoul of Jewish Law
Observant Jews are voicing concerns over modesty and looking for compromise on the Transportation Security Administration’s plan to expand the use of whole-body imaging machines for airport security, after last month’s failed attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound jetliner. Leaders in both Conservative and Orthodox communities are debating how scanners with the ability to see through…
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Blumenthal Finally Gets His Chance
Richard Blumenthal, long known as one of the nation’s most active state attorney generals, stands a good shot of becoming the Senate’s 14th Jewish member with the surprise announcement by Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd not to run for re-election this year. Blumenthal, 63, declared his intent to run for the seat January 6, the same…
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No God? No Problem
When Tzemah Yoreh opens his prayer book, he recites the following passage: “I will pour out my heart. But to whom? Why, oh why, do you not exist, my God?” You can’t find those words in any synagogue’s siddur — at least not yet. Yoreh prays from “Liturgical Experiments: A Siddur for the Skeptical,” the…
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A Wizard in the Classroom
With his foot up in bed after surgery for a broken ankle, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz, a teacher at SAR High School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, contemplated how to reach students taking his senior elective Kabbalah course. It was the start of the school year, and the plethora of English texts attempting to…
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A ‘Mikado’ for the 21st Century
A KIMONO-WEARING CANTOR IN NEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S PLAYERS’ MIKADO When the operetta “The Mikado” made its 1885 London debut at the Savoy Theatre, its creators — lyricist William Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan — could not have imagined that in 2010, in New York City, the cast would include a Jewish cantor (a…
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Rubashkin Kin Guilty in Sex Case
A son-in-law of Sholom Rubashkin, the kosher meat mogul convicted of financial fraud in November, has pleaded guilty to child endangerment in a case related to the sexual molestation of a 13-year-old boy at a mikveh. Under a plea bargain agreement, he faces up to 60 days in jail. Under oath, Rabbi Yaakov Weiss admitted…
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Forward, Haaretz Announce New Partnership
Later this month, the Forward will launch a partnership with the English edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Beginning January 24, a special four-page edition of the Forward will be inserted in Haaretz’s Sunday editions. “For Israeli readers, this will open a wider window to the Jewish world, and especially to the essential relationship between…
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Conservatives Protest Israel’s Treatment of Women of the Wall
The Israeli police’s recent interrogation of Women of the Wall leader Anat Hoffman and member Nofrat Frenkel “opens a new and ominous chapter in intra-Jewish relations,” The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism declared in a sharply worded statement released January 11. USCJ, which represents 670 synagogues in North America, is urging its members to write…
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Mina Bern, Yiddish Theater Doyenne, Dead at 98
Mina Bern, the doyenne of Yiddish theater who performed for audiences around the globe and acted in 12 films, died January 10 in New York City. She was 98. She spoke five languages, but said she was proud that Yiddish was her “best.” “Yiddish is such a rich language. As an actress I can convey…
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Bumps in the Road
Recently, my kids and I walked from our home to the park a few blocks away. My son Jeremy decided to roller-skate there, even though he’s still learning how. He can skate on his own on the smooth stretches of sidewalk, but needs help to keep from falling over bumps. We progressed at the pace…
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Israel’s Airport Security, Object Of Envy, Is Hard To Emulate Here
Renewed threats of airborne terror have once again drawn attention to Israel’s track record of preventing terror attacks on airplanes. American commentators and politicians, riled by the recent failure to stop terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab from boarding a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit, have raised calls for “Israelification” of American airports and the adoption…
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