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Fast Forward Reform, Conservative Leaders Join Gun Control Call
Top rabbis from the Reform and Conservative movements will join an interfaith call for greater gun controls in the wake of last week’s school massacre in Connecticut. Rabbi David Saperstein, who directs the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center, and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, who directs the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, will appear at a press conference…
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News For Ephraim Mirvis, Big Shoes to Fill
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has big shoes to fill. Appointed this week as the 11th British chief rabbi, he will succeed Jonathan Sacks, an internationally renowned author and public intellectual who speaks frequently on moral, philosophical and theological affairs. The widespread assumption among British Jews has long been that a Mirvis chief rabbinate would be quite…
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News ‘Ub-u-sive’
Guilty on all 59 counts: guilty, guilty, guilty. On Monday, December 10, a jury of 12 found Nechemya Weberman enormously guilty. The jurors convicted him of sexually abusing an underage girl entrusted to his care. They declared the respected member of the ultra-Orthodox community to be a criminal and a fraud, and thousands of survivors,…
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Fast Forward More Than 400 Jewish Clergy Press Netanyahu on E1
More than 400 American Jewish clergy asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to go ahead with new construction in a corridor connecting eastern Jerusalem to the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. “We fear that building settlements in E1 would be the final blow to a peaceful solution,” read the letter released Monday and…
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Opinion Hail to the Chief (Rabbi)
As soon as I heard the name of Great Britain’s newly named chief rabbi, I knew it sounded familiar. I met Ephraim Mirvis back in 1986, when I was a foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer based in London, and he was the relatively new chief rabbi of Ireland. I was young for my job….
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Fast Forward An Uncle’s Memories of Noah Pozner
At Monday’s funeral for six-year-old Noah Pozner, his uncle Alexis Haller delivered the following eulogy: On Friday, Dec. 14, we tragically lost a most beloved member of our family. Noah was a 6-year-old little boy, and he was so dear to all of our hearts. Words cannot express the unfathomable loss we feel. Noah was…
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Opinion Was Nechemya Weberman on Trial — or Satmars?
On December 10, Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed youth and marriage counselor in the Satmar community of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, was convicted of 59 counts of sexual misconduct against a minor. As in any trial, the judge reminded the jurors that the defendant’s guilt must be proved “beyond reasonable doubt.” But with Weberman now facing a possible…
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Fast Forward Newtown Rabbi: ‘Hardest Days of Our Lives’
Rabbi Shaul Praver of Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown, Conn., said he and other clergy are turning to each other to help them find the strength to support their congregants and other community members following the mass slaughter of 26 children and school staff on December 14 at the local Sandy Hook School. “We have…
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