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Hey kid, do you want to be a rabbi? Facing a shortage, Conservative movement looks to teens
Only seven students have enrolled in the incoming first-year class at JTS, the Conservative movement's rabbinical school in New York
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Feeling anxious about wildfire smoke? Here’s advice from a climate change chaplain
Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner on how to 'combat the profound isolation' of fears about climate change.
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That $65 million deal to sell AJU’s main campus? It just fell through.
EF Education First’s offer was pulled due to local opposition the buyer described as xenophobic
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Fighting for political survival, Labor chief wants American Jews to help rebuild liberal Zionism
MK Merav Michael called the massive protests against the government’s judicial overhaul plan a ‘huge opportunity’ for the Israeli left
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Politics A Jewish guide to Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, starting with his Trump and Kushner feuds
Chris Christie is portraying the former president as a danger to democracy, and his Jewish son-in-law as a grifter
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Sports The secret Jewish history of the Belmont Stakes
Its Jewish founder and namesake was the inspiration for an ostentatious Edith Wharton character
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That Jewish News Show: An Orthodox rabbi on why his synagogue supports the LGBTQ+ community
Laura and Benyamin discuss LGBTQ+ issues in the Orthodox community, the eye-popping antisemitic emails between two Los Angeles attorneys and what advice the Talmud and Jewish tradition has for Taylor Swift fans
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She represents the ‘worst of the worst.’ Now Judy Clarke is leading the defense in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre trial
Clarke has previously defended the Unabomber, Boston Marathon bomber and a white supremacist who shot people outside a Los Angeles JCC
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At an online Torah library, the people of the book confront book banning
In the face a new gender-sensitive translation of Bible, some Orthodox rabbis call for a boycott of Sefaria
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Politics Mike Pence and the Jews: What to know as he begins a presidential campaign
As vice president, Mike Pence made sure to stay on the same page as Donald Trump — except, sometimes, when it came to the Jews
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Why did top federation leaders sponsor a conference promoting Israeli settlements?
'Join us, and together we can make Israel great again,' one speaker told attendees at the conference, the sponsors of which included the federations network and its New York affiliate
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