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Opinion Who gets to say what is kosher? A Long Island restaurant is caught in the crosshairs
Disputes over the business of kashrut have become a regular feature on the dockets of U.S. courts.
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Culture Tobi Kahn marks a new Jewish ritual — with a new piece of art
What does tikkun olam look like? On Yom HaTzedek, a new holiday that falls on Pesach Sheni, it looks like a box. For Tobi Kahn, the renowned painter and sculptor, that box looks like a city awash in deep blue, its interior reflecting the heavens, its slot like a mailbox to God. On a Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Orthodox woman’s lawsuit against social work school can go forward
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a suit against The City University of New York and its trustees filed by an Orthodox Jewish woman who claims that she was denied admission to the university’s social work school because of her religious background. The applicant, Faigy Rachel Weiss of Brooklyn, plausibly alleges that university officials…
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Fast Forward French court ruling on the killing of Sarah Halimi sparks global protests
The French high court’s decision to acquit the man who killed Sarah Halimi, a 65 year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, has triggered a wave of international outcry. Protesters in Los Angeles and New York City stood outside their city’s French Consulates on Thursday demanding justice for Halimi and showing their support for France’s Jewish community. London,…
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Community Does upholding the law require punishment? Rabbinic tradition says no
Can the law unite us, inspire us, and keep us safe? As American institutions become politicized – from the NFL to the CDC – so too the law: the politics around policing, cash bail, and both recent and impending Supreme Court nomination hearings (to name but a few instances) have diminished the law’s ability to…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Cory Booker Responds to Trump’s ‘Disloyal Jews’ Comment – With A D’var Torah
Cory Booker lambasted Donald Trump’s comments that American Jews would be “disloyal” for voting for Democrats in what amounted to an off-the-cuff d’var Torah, or sermon, while on the campaign trail in Iowa Wednesday. Reporters asked Booker, a U.S. Senator from New Jersey who had a close connection to Jewish life at his university, about…
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Community America’s Legal System Is Rife With Injustice — And Jews Need To Help Fix It
Troubled greatly these days by the injustices all around us, I sat in synagogue some weeks back and came once again upon the ritual of the Sotah: the bizarre, seemingly barbaric procedure employed in Biblical times to placate a man consumed by suspicion over his wife’s unfaithfulness. Is it curious why he is so jealous?…
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