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Opinion Stop Using Brooklyn Fire To Stoke Anti-Orthodox Hatred
An Orthodox man looks at the scene of the fire in Midwood, Brooklyn / Getty Images You never want Shabbat to end on a tragic note. Yet among the the rush of messages that blipped across my phone when I turned it on Saturday night was news of the death of seven children in Brooklyn’s…
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Opinion Slouching Towards Shabbat
I’m failing at Shabbat, the most important holiday of them all. It’s not that I’m skipping it; for the past eight years, I’ve gone to services most Friday nights and many Saturday mornings. I buy a challah every week. Light candles. Recite Kiddush. I do feel some Shabbat separation — the literal translation of the…
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Recipes Luscious Lemon Pie for National Pie Day
At the end of a winding road through a cul-de-sac in Columbus, Ohio, lived my maternal grandparents, Lillian and Marty. They were always there when we pulled up, smiling through the screened door. My grandmother was always cooking. I don’t think I ever saw her without her apron on. I remember her mostly from behind;…
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Food A Pork-Filled Friday Night in Madrid
Illustration by Kurt Hoffman It was on a trip to Madrid, about four years ago, that I finally understood the paradox of opposites: that there’s no such thing as opposites, really, and that what you get when you try to run as hard as you can in the opposite direction to your upbringing is, well,…
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Opinion Did We Get USY’s Interfaith Dating Shift Wrong?
lior zaltzman Ever since publication of my Dec. 23 story on the decision by United Synagogue Youth to relax its rules barring teenage USY board members from dating non-Jews (“USY drops ban on interdating”), JTA has found itself at the center of a firestorm about coverage of the Conservative youth movement’s decision. Rabbi Julie Schonfeld,…
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News Ditch Your iPhone and Learn To Listen
The relationship I have with my electronic devices is intimate. I take my laptop to bed, my tablet to the bathroom and my phone to dinner. What began fifteen years ago as a monogamous arrangement with a Nokia phone that had a screen the size of an iPhone icon, along with an antenna and the…
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Opinion Sticking by Shabbat Was Real Story at USY
(Haaretz) — The Jewish Telegraphic Agency wire service ran an article about the United Synagogue Youth’s annual international convention, under the headline “USY drops ban on interdating.” Unfortunately, this headline, which was widely circulated among Jewish news outlets, failed to capture the real issue that emerged from the confab. A more apt headline would have been…
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Fast Forward United Synagogue Youth Eases Rule on Dating Non-Jews
lior zaltzman (JTA) — United Synagogue Youth voted to relax its rules barring teenage board members from dating non-Jews. The amendment was adopted Monday in Atlanta at the annual international convention of the Conservative movement’s youth group. The USY board also elected not to adopt a controversial proposal to eliminate the organization’s requirement that teen board…
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