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More Than A Million March For Gun Control – Including In Trump’s Backyard
More than a million Americans marched against gun violence across the country Saturday – with approximately 800,000 in Washington, D.C. alone – but the few thousand marchers here had the honor of shouting in earshot of President Trump as he seeks his usual weekend pleasures far away from life in the capital. If Trump thought…
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Presidents Conference’s Secret Rules Bar Jewish Groups From Attacking Each Other
Top American Jewish organizations agreed last year to adhere to rules that ban them from attacking each other, the Forward has learned. The rules, which regulate the discourse of American Jewish leaders, have never been publicized, and are unknown to the vast majority of the constituents of the organizations that have agreed to abide by…
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First Woman To Lead An American Rabbinical Association Stepping Down
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, who has lead the professional organization for Conservative Judaism’s rabbis since 2009, announced Friday morning that she would leave her post at the end of the year. In a letter to members of the Rabbinical Assembly, the chairman of the group’s board, Rabbi Philip Scheim, wrote that Schonfeld had informed the leadership…
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Some Jews Do Love To Shoot — Just Not On Shabbat
On Saturday, the March for Our Lives, a gun protest march organized in part by teenage survivors of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, will take place in cities across the country. Plenty of Jews will be in attendance — some of Parkland’s strongest voices since the shooting have been Jewish survivors and parents of those…
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Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Vaxxers Push Yeshivas To Admit Unvaccinated Students
Jews have been associated with the medical profession for more than 1,000 years. The “physician’s prayer,” which decorates the walls of countless doctors of all faiths, is popularly believed to have been written by Maimonides, a 12th-century rabbi. Five hundred years ago, Jews comprised half the doctors in Europe and less than 1% of the…
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Why Does Scandinavia Want To Ban Circumcision And Kosher Slaughter?
Scandinavia is the darling of liberals the world over. Yet for Jews living in there, life isn’t all free health care and minimalist design. In Iceland, the tiny Jewish population is now facing the most serious legal challenge to male circumcision in Europe. A new bill that criminalizes circumcision of minors and penalizes parents and…
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U. Penn Law Professor Disciplined For Comments About Black Students
The University of Pennsylvania law school took disciplinary action this week against a professor who made remarks asserting black students are rarely successful, according to the Washington Post. Tenured professor Amy Wax, who is Jewish, faced sharp criticism in recent days after video surfaced of an interview she gave in September 2017 on the YouTube…
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Charities Left In Lurch As Federations Abruptly End Funding Program
Since the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Jewish refugee aid organization HIAS has emerged as a major voice opposing the administration’s crackdown on immigrants. Now, a last-minute funding cut from the umbrella group for Jewish federations nationwide could mean a reduction in those efforts, and in the efforts of eight other leading Jewish…
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Explore All 3,318 Synagogues In Europe With This Amazing Online Tool
A new British organization has created an incredible tool that should fascinate anyone remotely interested in European Jewish culture: an interactive map of all of the continent’s 3,318 synagogues. The map catalogues the European synagogue buildings that are still standing — but less than a quarter of those are not actually used as synagogues today….
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23andMe’s Cool Update Does Bupkis For Most Ashkenazi Jews
Many Ashkenazi Jews know only a few basic geographical facts about their ancestors: They came from Poland, but when it was Russia. Their great-grandparents hailed from Bulgaria — or was it Romania? A number of Jews have turned to direct-to-consumer ancestry services like 23andMe and Ancestry.com for better answers, but they have gotten nowhere. This…
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Arianna Huffington Wants You To Observe Shabbat — And Switch Off Your Devices
With a precise blend of topical matters and entertainment, the Huffington Post has become the most popular news website in the United States. After selling it for hundreds of millions of dollars and stepping down from running it, its founder Arianna Huffington has embarked on a new initiative aimed at reducing our dependence on technology….
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