Dear Yoav Gallant: You are welcome at my synagogue
Why a Washington, D.C. congregation was wrong to cancel Israel’s former defense minister
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The former Israeli Defense Minister was scheduled for an event at Adas Israel, a Washington, DC, synagogue popular with top political officials
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News Between Yom Kippur services, Doug Emhoff shmoozes with the rabbis
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News A US soldier sent home bones from Dachau. They’ve just been buried in a Jewish cemetery
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News Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt spoke at the Capitol as Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s rabbi spoke on Friday at the Capitol building as the body of Supreme Court justice, feminist icon and Jew arrived for the high honor of lying in state for two days. She spoke about a framed piece of art in Justice Ginsburg’s chambers that said tzedek, tzedek tirdof, “Justice, justice you must…
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Fast Forward Meet the rabbi who led Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral service
Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt spoke and sang at Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral Wednesday in the Supreme Court. “This was Justice Ginsburg’s life’s work, to insist that the Constitution deliver on its promise that ‘We the People’ would include all the people,” she said. “She carried out that work in every chapter of her life.” She also…
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Culture What I Learned From Interviewing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Superhero
Follow Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto a stage, and you will have an extraordinary experience. It’s not that she makes a grand entrance. Quite the contrary — her frame is so tiny, her gait is so slow, that she appears to want to slide meekly into a room rather than take it by storm. But then…
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