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Culture Could my love of oysters actually be kosher?
At the turn of the 20th century, rabbis argued that bivalves were OK to eat — which is good news for a Jewish oyster shucker like me
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Fast Forward Andrea Weiss, trailblazing Reform rabbi who merged scholarship and activism, dies at 60
Weiss was the first-ever woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement
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Fast Forward Israel’s High Court sides with egalitarian prayer advocates in long-running Western Wall dispute
“The court is ordering an end to the foot-dragging,” Reform Movement attorneys say a decade after a deal to expand egalitarian prayer was struck
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Fast Forward Could a $1,700 rebate change the landscape of Jewish education?
What a national school voucher program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will mean for American Jews — and why it’s dividing them
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Culture On a clever new show, a female rabbi makes Judaism modern
'Reformed' tells the story of a French rabbi based on Delphine Horvilleur
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Fast Forward Right-wing activists riot outside Israeli-Palestinian memorial event at Reform synagogue in Israel
A crowd of dozens mobbed and harassed a woman as she left the event
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Fast Forward Conservative movement softens support for two-state solution
The World Zionist Congress elections have put liberal denominations on the spot amid the simmering Israel-Hamas war
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Fast Forward Reform leader condemns Khalil’s arrest, says campus crackdown risks greater antisemitism
The prepared remarks from Rabbi David Saperstein mark the strongest condemnation of Khalil’s detention from the Reform movement
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Fast Forward Mamdani voices concerns about synagogue buffer zone bill poised to pass NYC Council
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Diaspora leaders call for action against ‘Jewish-extremist terror in the West Bank’
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Fast Forward NYC Council approves ‘buffer zone’ legislation insulating houses of worship from protests
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