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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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Opinion Yeshiva Rabbi’s Shades of Bigotry
The lede, as we call it in the journalism biz, sat there silently on the computer screen, like an IED waiting to explode: “… or as he put it, ‘a shvartze,’” it said at the end. The phrase reported accurately the word Rabbi Hershel Schachter used to describe the reason he resisted the idea of…
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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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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