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Fast Forward Lakewood Orthodox Jews Pitch In After 2-year-old Latino Boy’s Tragic Death
— The Jewish community of Lakewood, New Jersey, is providing assistance to the family of a 2-year-old Latino boy who was killed in a tragic accident. Jayden Marquez was killed Thursday when his aunt accidentally backed into him with her car in the family’s driveway. An Orthodox Jewish committeeman, Meir Lichtenstein, went to the hospital…
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Fast Forward Jews Are World’s Most Educated but Orthodox Drag Figure Down: Study
— Jews are the world’s most-educated religious group, with an average of more than 13 years of formal schooling, according to a new study. The Pew Research Center study published Tuesday found that Jews worldwide have four years more of schooling on average than the next-most educated group, Christians, who average about nine years of schooling….
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Israel News New Jersey Family to Pay Rabbis Shunned by Israeli Rabbinate
(Ha’aretz) — If the state of Israel won’t pay the salaries of rabbis of certain denominations, then we will. That, in a nutshell, is how one family from Livingston, New Jersey, hopes to foment a religious revolution in Israel. By providing a living wage to rabbis who are not eligible for state funding – and…
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Fast Forward Online Petition Pushes Donald Trump To Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
— The Orthodox Union has started an online petition calling on President-elect Donald Trump to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The move would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s “chosen capital,” the O.U. petition on Change.org says. It also notes that June 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of the reunification…
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Community How My Southern Baptist Minister Mother Explained Her First Christmas to My Orthodox Jewish Son
I am a Jew by choice, I was raised a Muslim, and my mother is an ordained Baptist minister. One might think that I would encounter religious conflict with my family on all fronts. In fact, people are often incredulous at the ease with which I can navigate through these three Abrahamic faiths. Perhaps, because…
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News Ben Zion Shenker, a Master of Melodies, Made from Music a Life of Meaning
There are very few people who may honestly be referred to as “national treasures” — someone whose contributions are not to one or another group within our community, but to all of us together: old and young, wise and simple, religiously observant and less so. Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, who died November 20 at the…
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Fast Forward Husbands Who Refuse To Give Wives Orthodox Divorce Face Jail in Israel
JERUSALEM — A Jewish man in Israel who refuses to grant his wife a religious divorce after being ordered to do so by a rabbinical court could face criminal charges and be jailed. A new policy directive issued Monday by Israel’s State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan said that if a husband is convicted of violating the…
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News MAP: How Donald Trump Swept Orthodox Brooklyn — and Blocked a Jewish Landslide for Democrats
Orthodox and Russian Jewish neighborhoods in New York City came out strong for Donald Trump on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton carried New York City by a wide margin, and only 24% of Jews nationwide voted for Trump. But in Jewish Brooklyn, Trump appears to have connected with a conservative electorate willing to buck its communal and…
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