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Fast Forward Rabbi Saul Leeman, Who Marched In South With MLK, Is Dead At 100
(JTA) — Rabbi Saul Leeman, a longtime leader of Conservative congregations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and a civil rights activist who marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, has died at 100. Leeman, who served the Cranston Jewish Center on Rhode Island and later Temple Shalom in Medford, Massachusetts, died April 5. The Providence Journal…
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Community Rabbis Urge President Trump To “Act Decisively” In Syria
Dear President Trump, We write to you with angst just days before the Passover holiday when the Jews escaped the oppressive tyranny of Pharaoh in Egypt. The Assad regime in Syria appears to have conducted a nerve gas attack against Syrian civilians yesterday. At least 58 civilians have been killed in the attack, marking the…
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Community Prominent Orthodox Rabbis Affirm Progressive Commitments
Rabbi Dov Linzer, our Rosh Yeshiva, spoke at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School’s annual dinner about the centrality of Torah in our lives as Jews, and then shared the following words: “‘And let it be that we all may know your name and study your Torah.’ Let us make sure that everyone – rich or…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi Loses Russia Deportation Appeal
(JTA) — A Russian appeals court affirmed the expulsion order issued against an American rabbi working in Sochi, in what a local leader of the Chabad movement called a “dark day” for Jews. In its ruling Tuesday against Ari Edelkopf, the Krasnodar Court of Appeals accepted the position of a Sochi tribunal that earlier this…
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Opinion The Rabbi Refused To Do What?
The year was 1968, and I was senior at Hewlett High School, on Long Island. I was a jock, Liz Adams was a cheerleader, and it seemed like a perfect match. We liked the same music and we made each other laugh, so it was only natural that we go out. On a date. Maybe…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans Global Push To Track Jewish Marriage — And Divorce
An Israeli government ministry plans to keep track of Jews who marry around the world with an international database of Jewish marriage and divorce, the Jerusalem Post reported. The database is meant to stop Jews from marrying another partner if they are already married, but religious freedom advocates warn that such a list could be…
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Food Meet The Rabbis Keeping Kentucky’s Bourbon Kosher
There was a time not long ago when all bourbon was considered kosher. But for many observant Jews, that simple assumption has gone the way of the Grand Ole Opry. After decades of domination by clear alcohol, the U.S. liquor market has seen a resurgence in the popularity of darker liquors in recent years, with…
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Fast Forward Jews Cited As ‘Model Minority’ In French Election, According To Rabbi
PARIS (JTA) — The Jewish community of France has emerged during the nation’s presidential campaign as a model for integration of other faith groups, a senior rabbi noted following the first candidates debate. Rabbi Moche Lewin, a spokesman for the chief rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, made the observation in an interview Tuesday with JTA…
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Opinion Want to understand what’s wrong with the ‘pro-Palestine’ movement? This Palestinian can help
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