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Opinion How To Pick the Perfect Rabbi
I once spent three years of my life following what was supposed to be a one-year search for a new rabbi at one of the country’s biggest synagogues. It was one of the most fascinating, shocking and challenging experiences of my life — as a Jew and as a writer. And it made me entirely…
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News Favorite Rabbis; Obama in Israel; Newark and Philip Roth
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward Digital Features Editor Abigail Jones to discuss our crowdsourced list of 36 inspirational rabbis. Then, Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman calls in to fill us in on President Obama’s trip to Israel. Finally, Josh talks Philip Roth and Newark with Nate Lavey,…
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Opinion The Rabbi Who Inspired You Most
I spent the past few weeks reading hundreds of nominations for the Forward’s new series, America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis. When we launched this project in early February, we hoped that people would respond — that they would take a little time to tell us about the rabbi who inspired them or their communities — but…
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Opinion ‘Shvartze’ and Why We Should Know Better
One day, as I was writing at my desk, the phone rang. From Washington, it was the leader of a Muslim civil-rights organization on the line. “Rabbi, one of the big airlines just threw a number of imams off the plane because some passengers thought they looked suspicious,” he told me. “We would like to…
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Fast Forward Pope’s Book With Rabbi To Get English Translation
A book by newly installed Roman Catholic Pope Francis will be translated into English for the first time, publisher Image Books said on Tuesday. ?On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century,? which was first published in Spanish in 2010, will be released in the United States…
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Opinion Yeshiva Rabbi and the Jewish N-Word
I am lucky to have never heard the word nigger used towards me. As a black woman in the United States this is rare, even rarer since I spent the majority of my childhood summers in rural North Carolina with my mother’s family. I have vivid memories of riding in the back of my uncle’s…
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News Yeshiva Condemns ‘Offensive’ Racial Remarks by Rabbi Hershel Schachter
Yeshiva University has condemned racially loaded remarks made by a top dean of its rabbinic school as “inappropriate” and “offensive.” Rabbi Hershel Schachter, one of Y.U.’s most widely revered rabbinic deans, warned an audience of British rabbis last month that taking reports of child sexual abuse in the Jewish community to the police could result…
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Israel News Pope Francis I Speaks on Holocaust, Israel and Jews in Only Book
Within hours of the selection of Pope Francis I as the new pontiff, newspapers quoted the heads of the major Jewish agencies saying that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was committed to building bridges to the Jewish community. Jewish leaders said they expected to have a fruitful relationship with him. As a bishop and then cardinal,…
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