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News His synagogue barred him because he’s gay. Now, he protests outside each Shabbat.
'I just want a shul where everyone who is Jewish is welcome,' says Brian Mandel, a social worker.
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Fast Forward Survey finds Orthodox Jews are concerned about issues of abuse in their community
The survey also found slightly more progressive views on women in the clergy and Israeli politics than in the past
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California Briefing California Briefing: Special report on the Pico-Robertson shootings
Did it take a second shooting for LAPD to take the threat seriously?
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Yiddish World VIDEO: In historic first, a female Orthodox rabbi opens prayer at a state legislature
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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Sports The college is Christian. Its point guard wears a yarmulke.
Playing basketball in an Orthodox Jewish desert hasn’t always been easy for Ze’ev Remer. That was kind of the idea.
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Culture This Orthodox New Yorker feeds more cats than you
I followed a Jewish cat rescuer on his morning rounds to see what it's like caring for feral felines in a city that doesn't want to deal with them
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Fast Forward SCOTUS declines to take Yeshiva University LGBTQ case — for now
Roberts and Kavanaugh joined the court’s three liberal justices in essentially saying, ‘try again later’
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University LGBTQ group responds to school’s emergency SCOTUS petition
The school wants to turn a case it lost in June into a First Amendment showdown
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