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Big Difference: Brownback Succeeds Saperstein As Religious Freedom Envoy
It took the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Mike Pence, but on Wednesday the Senate finally approved, in the narrowest of margins, Sam Brownback as the State Department’s next ambassador at large for international religious freedom. Immediately after, Brownback announced his resignation from his post as governor of Kansas. Brownback will fill the position previously…
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Why Are So Many Israeli Politicians Backed By Twitter Bots?
Updated, January 30 Everyone, it seems, is concerned about Twitter bots, a catch-all term for non-human Twitter accounts that are often used to game the system — artificially amplifying its message, or lending it unmerited prestige. Twitter was at the center of inquiries from at least three Congressional committees just last week whose members were…
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Infertile Women: The Community Funds Services For Parents, It Should Help Us, Too.
When Naomi Less was still in the throes of what would be her nearly seven-year-long infertility journey, she made a vow. It was February 2014, and she had just written a passionate blog post about her struggle to have a baby. At 40, it would be nearly four more years before Less, a musician and…
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Why Did Conservative Rabbis Redo Their Intermarriage Ban — In Secrecy?
A little more than a year ago, a young rabbi revealed to colleagues that he had discovered that the Conservative movement never officially adopted one of its signature rules: the ban on rabbis blessing intermarriages. Conservative rabbis are also forbidden from even attending intermarriages on pain of expulsion from the movement, and the likely job…
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Did The Nazis Make Jews Wear Shoes With Torah Insoles? A Trump Official Says So.
Updated 6:00 p.m Anti-abortion activists often compare abortion to the Holocaust, claiming aborted fetuses are like Jews murdered by the Nazis. Jewish groups denounce these analogies regularly. Now, a Trump administration official has gone further, bringing footwear into the discussion. The occasion was the launch of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department…
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Have Jews Lost Power In New York City Council Reshuffle?
A power shift in New York’s City Council has diminished some of the city’s most influential Jewish legislators. Now, political insiders warn that Jewish groups may have less pull in City Hall over the next four years. Those insiders worry that the changes could mean that Jewish interests will get short shrift. And they note…
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Julius Lester Hailed As Role Model For Jews Of Color After Death At 78
Julius Lester, a celebrated African American author and civil rights activist whose conversion to Judaism in the 1980s made him a celebrated face of Jewish diversity, has died at 78. Lester had been posting online about his struggle with emphysema. Jews of color were once seen “an anomaly,” said Robin Washington, a journalist and co-founder…
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Pence Jetting In For Hero’s Welcome In Israel — But Is It Bad For The Jews?
Vice President Mike Pence will be accorded a hero’s welcome when he lands at Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday night, but for Palestinians he is more of a villain, or at least his deputy. Pence will receive an unusually warm embrace from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, but will be shown an ice-cold shoulder…
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This Jewish Day School Is Hosting A Drag Queen Shabbat Ceremony
(JTA) — The Saturday evening event at a Jewish day school in western Massachusetts will in many ways look like a typical havdalah. There will be a musical ceremony marking the end of Shabbat with a braided candle, grape juice and spice bags. But the event at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton will also…
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Who Is Blaze Bernstein’s Accused Killer — And Did He Turn To Hate Online?
Samuel Lincoln Woodward was formally charged Wednesday with murdering Blaze Bernstein — as questions continued to swirl around the senseless stabbing of the California college student. Woodward, a high-school classmate of Bernstein, was shackled and did not enter a plea during a brief appearance in an Orange County court. A judge ordered him held without bail…
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Who Had Dan Markel Killed?
Welcome to the Forward’s series on unsolved Jewish murders. The cases run across continents and class divides and have rocked Jewish communities around the world. To access the series, click here. The victim Dan Markel was a respected legal academic who wrote about crime and punishment in law journals, in essays for Slate and The…
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