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Rabbis Console Victims With Song And Prayers — And Seek Answers After Las Vegas Massacre
Rabbi Levi Harlig journeyed to a Las Vegas hospital Monday on a mission of mercy for one of the hundreds of victims of Sunday night’s massacre on the city’s famed Strip. Harlig sat and sang Jewish songs with the husband and mother-in-law of Natalie Grumet, a Jewish California resident who was injured in the shooting…
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Michael Rosbash Is A Nobel Prizewinner From Straight Outta The Borscht Belt
With characteristic envelope-pushing humor, Michael Rosbash, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, couldn’t help dropping a joke into a press conference Monday morning about the life of a scientist. In the library of Brandeis University, where he has taught for over forty years, Rosbash told a packed crowd of colleagues, university…
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Hebrew Israelite Leader Warns Kendrick Lamar Against Public Embrace
In a rare interview, the charismatic leader of a prominent Hebrew Israelite group welcomed the support of spiritually-seeking celebrities like Kendrick Lamar. But he candidly warned the superstar against publicly linking himself too closely to the Israelite community — because of possible blowback from fans and the mainstream media. “It would be better for Kendrick…
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Sea Change In Washington Cracks Opens Door To FEMA Funding For Synagogues
Armed with a presidential tweet, a bill moving forward in Congress and a pending lawsuit, Jewish and Christian advocates believe they are on the verge of overturning a long-standing policy that has prohibited federal emergency funds from reaching houses of worship hit by natural disasters. The public face of this campaign is Christian. A short…
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These Orthodox Jews Are Openly Marching Against Trump — Despite Taboo
Donald Trump enjoyed majority support from Orthodox Jews during the election. But a growing number of observant Jews are stepping forward to decry the president — and they are going public with their opposition at this weekend’s nationwide protests against racism. A Facebook group called Torah Trumps Hate, formed days after the election, has mushroomed to…
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Kushner Portrayed By Breitbart As Hapless Svengali ‘Misleading’ Trump Into Political Blunders
President Trump may still be wondering how he backed the wrong horse in the Alabama GOP senate primary. But Breitbart News and Steve Bannon already knows who to blame. It’s all Jared Kushner’s fault. According to the right-wing platform, ran by ex-White House political supremo Bannon, Kushner misled the president and pushed him to actively…
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Are The Orthodox Facing A Schism Over Female Rabbis?
Seven months after one of Orthodox Judaism’s oldest and biggest institutions barred women clergy from its synagogues, the decision is threatening to create yet another split in a community already riven by the issue of female rabbis. Founded more than 100 years ago, the Orthodox Union is a coalition of synagogues and other organizations, most…
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Trump Facing Increased Pressure From Congress To Keep Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ben Cardin, one of a handful of Senate Democrats who opposed the Iran nuclear deal, urged the Trump administration not to pull out of it — the latest indication of congressional resistance to killing the agreement. “If we violate a U.N. resolution, in the eyes of the international community, do we have…
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Christians Celebrate The High Holidays, Too — But Are They Welcome At Synagogue?
Paula White, the charismatic megachurch leader and spiritual adviser to Donald Trump, fasts on Yom Kippur and urges her millions of followers to do the same. They’re also supposed to reflect on “the atoning blood of Jesus.” “The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, is God’s biblical holy day that He established on Israel’s calendar…
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23andMe’s Next Phase: Using Customers’ DNA To Do Drug Research
23andMe isn’t the only company that conducts mail-order DNA tests that reveal consumers’ ancestry. There’s also MyHeritage, Living DNA and GPS Origins, to name a few. But it’s 23andMe, founded in 2006, whose name is becoming a synonym for spitting in a vial and finding out what percentage of you comes from where. Now the…
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Even After Leaving Ultra-Orthodoxy, Women Report A Culture Of Sexual Misconduct
Earlier this month, a woman who had broken with ultra-Orthodox Judaism welcomed another ex-Orthodox man into her home in New Jersey. The man had promised to advise her on managing divorce proceedings with young children. He claimed to have been through a similar ordeal, she said. Instead of asking her about her upcoming trial, the…
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