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News Orthodox Group Probed Alleged ‘Mikveh Peep’ Rabbi Barry Freundel
A national Orthodox rabbinic association recently investigated allegations of impropriety made against the rabbi accused of videotaping women at his mikvah, the Forward has learned. Rabbi Barry Freundel, spiritual leader of the Washington, D.C. congregation Kesher Israel, will be charged with voyeurism after a witness allegedly saw him installing a hidden camera above a shower…
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News 20 Rabbis Join Rallies in Ferguson as Anger Keeps Building
Outside the Ferguson police station, under a steady rain, the rabbis were asking the cops to repent. “We repent for the sins of our community, not only for the things we personally did,” Rabbi Jill Jacobs told one officer. “I asked him if he would join me in repenting, and he didn’t really respond.” Two…
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Fast Forward Reform Rabbis Seek To Aid Immigrants Facing Deportation
Reform rabbis are contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in an attempt to delay the deportation of undocumented workers. Rabbis Organizing Rabbis partnered with immigration advocacy organizations to ask the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to exercise discretion when deciding whether or not to deport anyone, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the…
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News Atlanta Rabbi Shalom Lewis Calls for ‘Holy Crusade’ Against Radical Islam
This was likely the first time a Rosh Hashanah sermon was covered by Iran’s national TV. “An American rabbi has called for the genocide of all Muslims,” said the announcer on PressTV, Iran’s English language government-run network. And while this report grossly misrepresented the words of Rabbi Shalom Lewis, his [sermon]( http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/rabbi-schlomo-lewis/ehr-daw-theyre-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FrontpageMag+(FrontPage+Magazine+%C2%BB+FrontPage ‘sermon’) on the…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi’s Wife Lashes Out at Australian Sex Abuse Victim
The wife of the Brooklyn-born chief rabbi of Chabad in Sydney apologized unreservedly for offending a child sex abuse victim on the eve of Yom Kippur. Pnina Feldman sent an email on Oct. 3 to Manny Waks, the only Jewish child sex abuse victim in Australia to have gone public. “I haven’t met a person…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Leader’s Car Torched in Atlantic City
A synagogue leader’s car exploded in a suspected arson attack in Atlantic City, N.J. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, several hours after the close of Rosh Hashanah, police discovered a Ford Explorer engulfed in flames outside Congregation Rodef Sholom, an Orthodox shul. The fire caused severe damage to the parking lot and the…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Man Stabbed by Disgruntled Worker in Brooklyn
An Orthodox man was stabbed in Brooklyn Heights — reportedly by a disgruntled employee. Hershy Feifer, described as an electrical contractor active in the Orthodox community and a clergy liaison to the New York Police Department, was attacked as he drove in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, where he was apparently working. Feifer was rushed to…
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News Do’s and Don’ts of Going to Synagogue Only on High Holidays
For every Jew who goes to synagogue on only the High Holy Days, there’s a rabbi keenly aware of that fact. Sometimes even sweating over that fact. “I go through a number of different sermons — lots of paper crumpling, lots of false starts,” admitted Eli Herscher, senior rabbi of Stephen S. Wise Temple, in…
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