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Bearing Gifts, Restoring the Temple Amid the Ruins Left by Katrina
By some standards, Beth Israel synagogue fared well last summer when Hurricane Katrina swept through Biloxi, Miss. Several of the congregation’s 60 families lost their homes, and about a tenth are leaving town. The temple, a small building on Camellia Street with a curving brick facade, suffered severe roof and water damage. Still, the sanctuary…
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Chabad Outfit To Endorse Military Chaplains
An ultra-Orthodox organization will start endorsing chaplains for the United States military, ending the 88-year-long monopoly on endorsements held by the multi-denominational body that had vetted all previous candidates. The Aleph Institute, an organization linked to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement previously known for helping Jewish prisoners, was approved last month by the Department of Defense to…
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Pro-Israel Activists Block Travel Reform
WASHINGTON — Jewish organizations played a leading role in defeating the effort, launched in response to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, to ban privately funded trips for members of Congress. Advocates of lobbying reform and many members of Congress stepped up their push for a ban on travel paid for by private individuals and organizations…
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The Israeli Landscape I Saw Through Ariel Sharon’s Eyes
Ariel Sharon lies comatose in a Jerusalem hospital. Obituary writers are sorting through their documents, their impressions, sometimes their interview notes, awaiting the inevitable and trying to figure out how to place this man, so reviled and so admired, so full of apparent contradictions, cut down just as he was in the process of revealing…
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Remembering Harold Ostroff, Who Saved Jewish Forward
This week, the Forward family mourns the loss of Harold Ostroff, our longtime general manager and a giant in the worlds of affordable housing and Yiddish culture. In its 109-year history, the Forward has benefited from the work of a few geniuses and many talented, smart, devoted people. Yet, even among them, Harold Ostroff was…
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Embattled Bush Team Gets Boost At Aipac Parley
WASHINGTON — Even as President Bush’s popularity dropped to record lows, his administration was embraced warmly this week by the thousands of delegates at the most influential annual gathering of American Jewish activists. In recent weeks Bush has seen his approval ratings drop to around 35%, leading some analysts to the conclusion that his poll…
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Newsdesk March 10, 2006
L.A. Rabbi Resigns Rabbi Aron Tendler has resigned from the pulpit of Shaarey Zedek, an Orthodox synagogue in Valley Village, Calif., under a cloud of sexual allegations relating to his previous tenure at an Orthodox high school. The controversy makes Tendler, 51, the second member of his prominent rabbinic family to fall under scrutiny for…
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Are ZOA’s Claims Inflated?
A potential donor browsing promotional material for the Zionist Organization of America would see a strong organization that has 50,000 members, 36 regional offices and three programs in Israel. But these numbers appear to be exaggerated. The number of dues-paying members is overstated by almost 40,000, and two of the three Israel programs no longer…
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Illinois Commission Roiled Over Nation of Islam Talk
An Illinois anti-discrimination task force has found itself in disarray after one of its commissioners refused to distance herself from comments made by the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, leading a number of the commission’s Jewish members to resign in protest. Five Jewish members of the Illinois Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes, including the…
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Zionist Congress Election Sees Decrease in Voters
The country’s only open, national Jewish elections ended with the Reform movement on top yet again, and the Orthodox sneaking past the Conservative movement for a second-place finish. The elections, which ended March 6, were held to determine the composition of the 145-person American delegation to the World Zionist Congress, which is held every four…
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Conservatives Postpone Gay Vote
The top lawmaking body of Conservative Judaism has postponed a vote on whether to overturn the movement’s ban on same-sex marriage and the ordination of openly gay clergy. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, a 25-member panel of rabbis and lay leaders, held a two-day summit in Maryland this week to consider four separate…
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