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A Church, a Shul, and a Mosque Try Faithful Experiment
Deep in America’s heartland, a Reform synagogue, a nondenominational mosque and an Episcopalian church are all putting down roots on a 37-acre tract of land that once belonged to a Jewish country club. A body of water called Hell Creek runs through the development, over which the faith groups plan to build “Heaven’s Bridge.” Fantastical…
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More Than 300,000 in Israel Protest High Cost of Living
Over 300,000 people marched together in the mass protest that took place across Israel on Saturday, according to police estimates. It was the third consecutive week of mass rallies across the country against the high cost of living and other social and economic inequities. Approximatley 300,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv, 20,000 participated in Jerusalem,…
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Jewish Federations Struggle With Budget Cuts
The budget deal in Washington and the near certainty of steep declines in federal funding for social services have created a challenge for Jewish communal federations across the country: How to maintain support for hospitals, nursing homes and other services while continuing to provide the education, identity and Israel programs that their donors want? Federations…
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Leiby Kletzky Killing Renews Calls For Oversight of Yeshivas
Tax credits for property owners who install security cameras. Electronic tracking devices for children to wear. Signs designating storefronts as “safe havens” for lost kids. A number of child-safety proposals have been floated in the wake of the murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky in Brooklyn’s Boro Park neighborhood. One proposal might stand out to New…
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Israeli Protests Galvanize the Public. But for What Goal?
The masses marching down the streets on the muggy night of July 30 were a mixed crowd. There were students from the “tent city” set up on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard to protest high housing costs. Then came young couples who joined the march pushing strollers or carrying toddlers on their shoulders, crying out against…
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The Woman Behind the Polish Jewry Museum
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has many titles: award-winning author, essayist and University Professor at NYU, among them. Most recently, she’s been tapped to lead the core exhibition development team for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which is now being built on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, and which recently made headlines with the…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Palestinian Statehood; Reporting Abuse; Kiryas Joel
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by opinion editor Gal Beckerman, Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff and staff writer Paul Berger to discuss the upcoming United Nations vote on a possible Palestinian state, which is scheduled to occur in September. Then the group turns to an ongoing debate that has Orthodox rabbis arguing…
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New Technology Identifies Genes Behind Rare Eye Disorder
One night when Daria Zawadzki was 17 years old, she drove into oncoming traffic. Although no one was hurt, the accident convinced her that ?there was something wrong.? Zawadzki had been driving for a year, yet she could hardly see at night and wondered how others navigated roads in the dark. There were other incidents,…
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Strict Divorce Rules Leave Women ‘Chained’ to Husbands
A Lakewood, N.J., rabbi and his wife are facing life in prison. They were brought up on kidnapping charges July 18 for their alleged roles in the abduction and beating of an Israeli man who refused to give his wife a Jewish divorce, otherwise known as a get. Shocking, right? Not really. Under Jewish law,…
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Fate Has Been Kind to Little Shul on Stanton Street
Just the other day, my friend Molly and I traveled back in time. No, we didn?t ingest any foreign substances or don a funny pair of 3-D goggles. We attended synagogue ? Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshei Brzezan. Or, to call it by its American name, the Stanton Street Shul. Built in 1913 on a narrow…
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Leiby Kletzky Murder Reignites Fight Over Reporting Abuse
The abduction and murder of Leiby Kletzky in a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn has reignited a debate over when Jews can report sexual abuse to the authorities. Levi Aron, 35, was indicted on murder charges in the July 12 killing and dismemberment of 8-year-old Leiby. In a confession to police, Aron said he…
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