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Rachel Timoner Brings Social Justice Focus to Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim
(JTA) — One of the top agenda items these days for Rachel Timoner, associate rabbi at the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, is trying to get a train built along the I-405 freeway stretching from the North San Fernando Valley to the city’s international airport. It’s the community project her Reform congregation has chosen…
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Brian Williams Israel Helicopter Story ‘Accurate’
An Israeli army officer who was on a helicopter with NBC news anchor Brian Williams during the Second Lebanon War said his reporting “was representative of the experience.” “The general descriptions Williams gave were accurate,” Jacob Dallal, a reserve major in the army’s media liaison office, told Bloomberg in a phone interview Monday. Williams, who…
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Why Are Jews Supporting a German Right-Wing Movement?
Standing on an improvised stage and wrapped in the black, red and gold German flag, Rotem Ahituv stared out at thousands of protesters spread below him and offered the demonstrators a kind of absolution that only someone like him could give. “I am Jewish,” he told the crowd. “My family has lived here in Germany…
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Am I Really ‘World’s Worst Mom’?
If you’re wondering if any reality TV shows are really real, I can tell you about one of them: Mine. The show is called “World’s Worst Mom,” which refers to me, not the 13 overprotective moms I visit. I swoop in like the Supernanny, except instead of dealing with out-of-control brats, I deal with parents…
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Sudden Collapse of FEGS Raises Disturbing Questions About Jewish Social Service System
The collapse of one of the largest Jewish charities in the United States is raising concerns about the future of the Jewish social service ecosystem. The massive New York-based social service charity known as FEGS said on January 30 that it would shut down, just seven weeks after it revealed a stunning, previously undetected $19.4…
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Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Now Backs Monument to Righteous Gentiles
The controversy surrounding a monument to honor Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust has taken yet another turn, as Simcha Rotem, a prominent survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has reconfirmed his support for the project, days after signing a letter protesting its location. Rotem said that he supports locating the monument on the site…
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What I Learned Teaching Arabs About Judaism in Abu Dhabi
It was ironic, to say the least, that it took coming to an oil-rich Arab emirate to get me to lead my first Rosh Hashanah service. Forty-five years ago I had earned Conservative rabbinic ordination from New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary. But this was the first time I had ever used it. I had turned,…
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Freeze My Eggs — Please!
The elevator doors in a tall building next to New York’s Central Park opened to an immaculate, spacious office. There were at least 15 women sitting quietly on white couches, next to a table offering coffee and tea. They appeared to be in their 30s; some seemed optimistic, others worried, a few joyful. Most of…
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Your Intermarriage Obsession Is Just So Offensive
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith couples and families. Read the discussion and vote below for what you think is the best response to this particular quandary. You can email your own questions, which will remain…
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‘Ellen Smile’ Recalled at Funeral for Jewish Mom Killed in Train Tragedy
In gut-wrenching ceremonies two hours and 22 miles apart from each other, family and friends said difficult goodbyes on Friday to the mother of one Westchester family and the father of another, both killed in this week’s New York commuter train tragedy. The question on mourners’ minds, the question many of us ask in these…
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Abe Foxman Calls on Benjamin Netanyahu To Scrap Speech to GOP Congress
As the controversy surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu speech to Congress reaches new heights, one of the Jewish community’s top leaders is calling on the Israeli prime minister to stay home. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti Defamation League said that the political uproar ignited by Netanyahu’s invitation to speak to a joint meeting of Congress…
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