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How High Is Your Glass Ceiling? We Want To Know!
We are gearing up for our seventh of Jewish nonprofit organizations. In years past, we have found that though women are represented in overwhelming numbers as essential members of the organizations, they are severely underrepresented in top leadership roles. Even among those in executive roles, women still lag behind their male counterparts in compensation. In…
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Paid Parental Leave Policy Now Sets JTS Apart From Other Seminaries
If rabbinic leaders are supposed to be the spiritual backbone of the Jewish family, the schools that train them have not set much of an example when it comes to supporting working parents. Even though Jewish communal groups put a huge emphasis on family life and Jewish continuity, most of the nation’s rabbinical seminaries still…
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Zimbabwe’s Lembas Push for Circumcision
On a hot spring morning in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, Modreck Maeresera is packing up for a trip at his quiet suburban home. Maeresera is a leader of Zimbabwe’s Lemba community, which claims Jewish roots. He is preparing for a mission to the United States that he hopes will deepen the community’s Jewish practice…
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Iconic Hasidic-Owned Electronics Store B and H Faces Growing Worker Revolt
Warehouse workers at the massive Hasidic-owned photo and electronics store B&H Photo Video are demanding union representation, while alleging unsafe working conditions and unfair hours at the store’s two Brooklyn warehouses. Organizers filed a petition October 13 with the National Labor Relations Board for roughly 200 workers at B&H warehouses in the Bushwick section of…
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The Jerusalem Street at the Epicenter of the Violence
Like so many places in this divided city, the street where several recent terrorist stabbings have taken place in Jerusalem’s Old City goes by two names. To Jews, it is HaGai Street, and to Palestinians, it’s Al Wad. In English, it’s the Valley. Over its 2,000-year existence, countless people have walked the street’s pale brown…
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From Desolate Playgrounds to Pepper-Spray, Rising Violence Affects Everyday Life in Israel
As we try to come around the idea of perhaps another Intifada, and as we are flooded with videos of violent stabbings and attacks that go viral, it’s perhaps easier to grasp the immediacy of the violence, but harder to grasp how it’s affecting everyday life. Last Sunday morning, parents protested at the entrance of…
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Why America Stays Silent as Israel Violence Spirals Toward ‘Intifada’
When tensions between Israelis and Palestinians flared up in Jerusalem last November, Secretary of State John Kerry invited Israeli and Palestinian leaders to an emergency summit in Jordan to clear the air and restore calm. This month, when demonstrations erupted again around the Temple Mount and evolved into an outburst of violence across Israel and…
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Ruth Messinger Stepping Down as Head of American Jewish World Service
Ruth Messinger will step down as president of the international development group American Jewish World Service, the organization announced on October 13. Messinger, who has led the organization since 1998, will be succeeded in July 2016 by Robert Bank, the group’s current executive vice president. A former Manhattan borough president and Democratic candidate for New…
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JTS Offers Parents Up to 8 Weeks Leave — Breakthrough Among Seminaries
The Jewish Theological Seminary has become the largest Jewish seminary in America to offer its employees fully paid parental leave. The policy, which JTS announced in an email today, grants six weeks of paid parental leave to “primary caregivers” who have worked at the Conservative seminary for more than one year and eight weeks of…
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It’s Jew vs. Jew (Plus 5) in Race for Maryland Congressional Seat
Two prominent progressive Jews are among the seven candidates joining the fray to win one of the rarest prizes available in Congress these days: an open seat in which the incumbent has chosen not to run. Both Jamie Raskin, a Maryland state senator, and Joel Rubin, a former Obama administration official, boast deep Jewish roots…
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Despite Threats, the Oslo Pact Is Still Intact — But for How Long?
When a frightening spate of terror attacks targeted Israelis in early October, the violence seemed to arrive right on cue: amid rising tensions over the Temple Mount, after the Israeli army’s killing of a young female student at a checkpoint and on the heels of dueling speeches by leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority…
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