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A Jewish Woman Makes A Stand At One Of Alabama’s Last Abortion Clinics
(JTA) — Early on Friday mornings, Diane Weil leaves her house in Montgomery, Alabama, with an umbrella. The 64-year-old registered nurse doesn’t need it to shield her from the rain. Instead she uses it to block patients from protesters who come to the health clinic where she has been volunteering every week since September. Reproductive…
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This Big Fat Greek-Jewish Street Festival Is Actually An Amazing Party
I say, “Jewish Lower East Side.” You say, “Bagels.” Or perhaps, “Katz’s corned beef.” But what if I told you, “Bourekas”? What if I told you, “Baklava”? Those foods, as Jewish and as native to LES as schmaltz and herring, were on sale by the thousands at the fifth annual Greek Jewish Festival, hosted by…
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An Orthodox Teenager Is Running The Most Unorthodox Presidential Campaign
The 2020 presidential race is only a few months underway and has already seen many firsts among its major candidates, including the first Asian-American, Hindu and openly gay contenders. It’s also the first race where a serious candidate’s campaign manager is a teenager – let alone a teenager who’s equally comfortable quoting classic “Simpsons” episodes…
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New Independent Jewish Student Network Seeks ‘Judaism On Our Own Terms’
Brown University junior Hal Triedman is a leader of an independent prayer group called Friday Night Jews, but he doesn’t know exactly how it started, since it was founded before he arrived on campus. He’s pretty sure it had something to do with a few students being upset with the local Hillel, the main Jewish…
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Why Is This Facebook Group Trying To Shame The Most Jewish Town In America?
The Lakewood Yeshiva is in New Jersey, but it’s the Texas of Talmud academies. Everything is big, from festivals to real estate deals. Its airy study halls can hold hundreds of bearded men in black pants and crisp white shirts, their fringes swinging at the waist as they spend their days in prayer and study….
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Synagogues Make Sacrifices To Upgrade Security After Poway, Pittsburgh
The wake-up call for the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue came the morning 11 Jews at prayer were killed in Pittsburgh. The Reform congregation created a security committee and quickly began planning and implementing changes. Because they did not have a deep rainy-day fund to draw on, they cut the facilities budget, and added a $190 security…
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The Day The Forward Called The Cops On The Jewish Left
One midwinter afternoon in 1926, the socialists at the Jewish Daily Forward called the cops on the Jewish left. Columns of angry workers marched on the Forward’s Lower East Side headquarters, carrying banners that read “Down With the Forward.” The Forward knew they were coming, so the newspaper bosses called police headquarters for help. The…
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American Synagogues Can’t Keep The Doors Open Anymore, Experts Say After Poway
Two days after a 19-year-old white supremacist stormed a synagogue in California, security experts are calling on synagogues to guard their doors. That’s a bitter pill to swallow for many American synagogues, for which open doors have been all but an article of faith. But in the wake of two deadly synagogue attacks just six…
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Now We Know What Happened: Poway’s Jews Defied Their Attacker, And He Fled
Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue in northern suburbs of San…
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Here’s What We Know About The California Synagogue Shooting
A gunman killed one person and injured three more at a synagogue outside San Diego on Saturday. Here’s what we know about the attack. Click on each article for more details: Some details of the incident have been released: The shooting took place at Chabad of Poway, on the six-month anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue…
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