Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Woman To Lead Conservative Rabbis
The central organization for Conservative rabbis has appointed a woman as its top executive, making it the first of the three major Jewish denominations to appoint a woman as the head staffer for one of its organizational bodies. The Rabbinical Assembly announced on October 29 that Rabbi Julie Schonfeld had been appointed to take over…
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News Facing Tough Times, Archive Prepares To Close
Philadelphia, PA — After 36 years as a standalone organization, the Philadelphia Jewish Archive Center will be shutting down sometime in early 2009 in response to a budget crunch. Its collections, which span nearly 200 years of Philadelphia Jewish history, will be absorbed into the archives of nearby Temple University. “This was a decision that…
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Breaking News Jewish Academics Form Pro-Obama Group
The latest group of Jewish professionals that is banding together to support Barack Obama’s candidacy are professors in Jewish studies. A group of more than 240 scholars of Jewish studies have signed onto a statement endorsing Obama. The statement urges fellow Jews to vote for the Democratic candidate and decries the persistent fears about Obama…
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News For One Day, Newark’s Jews Return To Mourn
Newark, N.J. — The lively Jewish community that made Newark, N.J., one of the capitals of American Jewish life is long gone, but once a year a small spark of the community is rekindled — under police protection. One day each year, typically the Sunday that falls between the High Holy Days, a detail of…
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News Orthodox Rabbis To Set Voluntary Guidelines for Kosher Businesses
In the wake of a widely publicized initiative by the Conservative movement to link kashrut with Jewish ethics, the largest umbrella organization of Orthodox rabbis has announced that it will devise its own set of ethical guidelines for the kosher food industry. On September 23, the Rabbinical Council of America, which serves as the rabbinic…
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News Survey Numbers Show American Jews To Be Less Religious on Many Measures
Religiously speaking, Jews are joiners but not necessarily believers, according to a new look at the data from a massive survey of religion in the United States. Compared with the major Christian denominations in the United States, American Jews are affiliated but remarkably secular, according to a report that draws on figures from the U.S….
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News Orthodox Rabbis To Link Kashrut, Ethics
In the wake of a widely publicized initiative by the Conservative movement to link kashrut with Jewish ethics, the largest umbrella organization of Orthodox rabbis has announced that it will devise its own set of ethical guidelines for business practices and will ask members of the kosher food industry to sign on. The Rabbinical Council…
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News Wall Street Woes Challenge Shuls To Confront Crisis
On September 17, as the financial markets teetered on the brink of outright collapse, a networking group of financial executives gathered in a conference room at Temple Israel in Westport, Conn., to talk things over. Matthew Bud, a synagogue member who organizes the group, recalled that the mood was grim as participants practiced their networking…
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