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Fast Forward As Ohio again tries to block Hebrew Union College’s restructuring, a new rabbinical school emerges in Cincinnati
The College for Contemporary Judaism pledges to fill a role soon to be vacated by the Reform movement’s historic midwest flagship
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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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Yiddish לכּבֿוד יום־העצמאות — אַ לויב דעם מאַלווע־געוויקסOn Yom Haatzmaut — a tribute to the mallow plant
אַ סך ישׂראלים רײַסן די בלעטער פֿון דער מאַלווע (חוביזה אויף העברעיִש) און מאַכן קאָטלעטן דערפֿון.
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