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Rabbinical Study Finds ‘Alarming’ Pulpit Gender Gap
Nearly two decades after the ordination of the first Conservative woman rabbi, the movement’s rabbinical union is calling for dramatic steps to close what it describes as an alarming gender gap in the pulpit. The issue was highlighted in a study released last week that found a number of discrepancies, such as female rabbis earning…
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Israeli Mob War Hits the Streets of Central Prague
TEL AVIV — Minutes into his tenure as Israel’s national police chief last Sunday, Commander Moshe Karadi was welcomed with a blast that sounded all the way from the Czech Republic. An unidentified man threw a hand grenade toward a jeep in the center of Prague. Eighteen people were injured in the August 1 blast….
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Evangelicals Seen Forging Alliance With ‘Messianic Jews’
The founder of a fundamentalist Christian men’s movement plans to forge a new alliance with “messianic Jews” that could undermine crucial relations between pro-Israel Evangelical Christians and the Jewish community. Bill McCartney, the former University of Colorado football coach who in 1990 created Promise Keepers, a national Christian men’s ministry, is planning to launch “Road…
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Letter From Masmiya Junction (correction)
Two photographs accompanying the “Letter From Masmiya Junction” in the July 30 issue were credited incorrectly. Rebecca Kowalsky took all the photographs.
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Newsdesk August 6, 2004
Moskowitz Bid Rejected The Hebrew University of Jerusalem sold 24 acres of land in East Jerusalem to a Palestinian company that specializes in mortgages for Palestinians. According to reports in Yediot Ahronot, the university rejected a bid for the property from right-wing American-based financier Irving Moskowitz, who offered the university three times as much as…
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Survivors Receive $401 Million As Slave Labor Compensation
Gisela Schlanger had tears running down her face as she described her plans for the payment she was to receive this week from Germany for her Holocaust-era slave labor. “My children are talmidei chachamim” — Torah scholars — she said at a press conference held by the Claims Conference. “I have a very special grandson,…
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New Zealand Ups Ante in Spy Affair
SYDNEY — The left-leaning government of New Zealand has imposed a series of sanctions on Israel in the wake of the bungled Mossad-passports affair, and the diplomatic rupture is likely to be “long lasting” unless Israel “explains, apologizes and reassures” the Wellington government, said the island nation’s foreign minister. “We are the victims of an…
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Court Faces Fight Over Teen Executions
WASHINGTON — In an effort to end America’s status as the only Western nation to execute juveniles, more than 30 religious organizations have come together to urge the Supreme Court to outlaw the practice. The coalition of Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist organizations signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday, which argued that such…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Ready to Rumble: More than 20 Jewish Democratic lawmakers are volunteering to debate President Bush’s Jewish Republican partisans on any aspect of John Kerry’s record. “The Bush-Cheney campaign thought they could get away with mischaracterizing Kerry’s record. Let’s do Israel. Let’s do domestic policy. Bring it on,” said the executive director of the National Jewish…
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Newsdesk July 23, 2004
Chirac: No Note to Sharon French President Jacques Chirac denied reports that he rescinded an invitation to Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to visit Paris. On Monday, it was reported that Chirac had sent a letter to Sharon after the Israeli leader called on French Jews to move to Israel because of antisemitism in France….
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Bogie Speaks Yiddish!
One never knows where one will find a Jewish linguistic question answered. It can even be in an old Humphrey Bogart movie. The movie I was watching on TV the other night was “The Big Sleep,” starring Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Made in 1946, it was directed by Howard Hawks and its highly entertaining screenplay…
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