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Members of Congress Head to Israel for Summer Sun and Summitry
Jerusalem – The summer tour season to Israel for American politicians reached its peak this month, with nearly 10% of the House of Representatives visiting Jerusalem in the past two weeks. Forty Republicans and Democrats met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in two separate rounds of intensive touring mixed with high-level policy meetings. This year’s…
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Young Muscovites Find Community in High-Speed Scavenger Hunts
Moscow – One recent Saturday night, about 50 people in a dozen cars gathered in the parking lot of a furniture warehouse in southeast Moscow for an event that could be described only as a combination of “Jeopardy!” “The Fast and the Furious” — and Talmud class. At exactly midnight, the crews that make up…
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Orthodox Pols’ Meeting Raises Ire in N.J.
A photograph that appeared in a local newspaper last month, depicting a meeting of mostly Orthodox New Jersey politicians, has sparked controversy in the suburb of Teaneck, heightening existing tensions between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox communities in the town of 39,000. The New Jersey suburbs have, in recent years, become a breeding ground for strife…
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Leading Blogger Joins Jewish Mainstream
A mainstay of the Jewish blogging world is scaling back his controversial commentary and joining the mainstream Jewish media. Daniel Sieradski, who founded Jewschool, Radical Torah and Orthodox Anarchist, three blogs known for their provocative and left-leaning postings, started Monday as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s director of digital media. To dedicate himself to this new…
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Reform Devises Sex-Change Blessings
In a groundbreaking move to recognize the experiences of transgender Jews, the Reform movement has published several prayers for sanctifying the sex-change process. The Union for Reform Judaism this week released the second edition of Kulanu, the union’s 500-page resource manual for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion. The guide includes two blessings authored by…
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Tenure Battle Riles Barnard
A brewing battle over tenure for a polarizing Barnard College professor is threatening to thrust Columbia University back into the center of a controversy over its academic treatment of the Middle East. Nadia Abu El-Haj, an assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard, is the author of “Facts on the Ground,” a 2001 book that questions…
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Kosher Slaughterhouse’s Food-Safety Record Criticized by Regulators
The nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, already the subject of allegations about its treatment of both workers and animals, has also been chastised by government regulators for its food-safety record, according to newly released documents. The AgriProcessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, received 250 noncompliance records from the United States Department of Agriculture during 2006, five of…
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A Muslim Congressman Heads to the Holy Land
Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is among a congressional delegation visiting Israel this week with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. The eighteen-member group, which is almost all freshmen, also includes Jewish congressmen Paul Hodes, John Yarmuth and Steve Cohen. My colleague Nathan Guttman is in Israel now and will have a story up this week…
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On Fellowship
I had to apologize to my younger self when I agreed to teach a course at the National Havurah Summer Institute a few years ago. My parents were part of a Havurah — a Jewish fellowship group with roots in the hippie era — and although we never attended the institute, my brothers and I…
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Summer Sounds
Musical worlds collide at the upcoming installment of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors performance series. Klezmer wonder Andy Statman and bluegrass great Ricky Skaggs take the stage as special guests in each other’s respective bands, The Andy Statman Trio and Skaggs’s Kentucky Thunder. The show is part of the Roots of American Music mini-festival….
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Borscht Belt Meets Bible Belt
Chayim surveyed the audience — an audience that included a significant number of ventriloquists who use their art to spread the Gospel. He turned to Allan Blumenstyk and gave him a look that seemed to say, “For this you put me in a suitcase and schlep me across the ocean?” But if Chayim was less…
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