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News Yeshiva Rabbi Bluntly Warns Sex Abuse Reports Put Innocent Jews in Prison
A top rabbinic dean of Yeshiva University has warned rabbis about the dangers of reporting child sex abuse allegations to the police because it could result in a Jew being jailed with a black inmate, or as he put it, “a shvartze,” who might want to kill him. Rabbi Hershel Schachter, one of the most…
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Israel News Controversial Panel on Israel Moved From Ansche Chesed After Rabbi Balks
A panel discussion on whether Israel is a democracy has been moved from one Manhattan synagogue to another, following an objection to the event from the first synagogue’s rabbi. The April 4 panel will be held at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue on the far West Side of Manhattan. Organizers had originally rented…
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Breaking News Hasidic Rabbi Who Held Naked ‘Purification’ Rite Faces Israel Charges
An Israeli rabbi who fled to the United States amid sexual abuse allegations reportedly will return to Israel. Army Radio reported Monday that the 70-year-old rabbi, who was not named but was identified as being from a “very well known hasidic movement,” agreed to return to Israel in the coming days and face his accusers….
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Breaking News Jason Klein Tapped To Lead Group of Reconstructionist Rabbis
The newly elected leader of the Reconstructionist movement’s rabbinic association will be the first openly gay man to lead a national rabbinic association in the U.S. Rabbi Jason Klein, a Hillel rabbi at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, was elected to lead the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association at the group’s annual meeting taking place this week…
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Food Financing Rabbinical School, One Kiddush at a Time
A few years ago, while discussing my rabbinical school application with my rabbi, I lamented that all the money that my parents spent on culinary school and the years I worked in the food industry had been a waste. Especially now that I was going to be a rabbi. She said to me – one…
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Breaking News Menachem Froman, Backed Coexistence With Muslim Fundamentalists, Dies at 68
Rabbi Menachem Froman died on Monday at the age of 68, following a prolonged illness. Froman, rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, was unique among settler rabbis in that he was a leading proponent of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue as far back as the 1980s, when contact with the PLO was still illegal. He was…
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Breaking News Dan Ehrenkrantz, President of Reconstructionist Seminary To Step Down
Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz will step down as president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Ehrenkrantz released a statement on Thursday announcing that he would be leaving the position he held for more than a decade at the college in Wyncote, Pa. “As I look at RRC today, I see an organization uniquely poised to lead and…
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Culture Downton Rebbe
The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! More stories here… “We had no idea ‘Downton’ would take off as it did,” marvels Julian Fellowes, executive producer and creator of “Downton Abbey,” while taking a rare break from filming on location at Highclere Castle. Relaxing in a yellow damask armchair with a cup…
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