Elli Wohlgelernter
By Elli Wohlgelernter
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News JTS Chief Opposes Policy Change
JERUSALEM — Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, told the Forward that he opposes any change to the Conservative movement’s prohibition against ordaining gay rabbis or sanctioning same-sex commitment ceremonies. Schorsch outlined his position this week while attending the annual convention of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly in Jerusalem. It appeared to…
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News Women Pass the Pigskin On Israeli Football Team
JERUSALEM — This Sunday, large numbers of Israelis will be watching the Super Bowl, cheering on the New England Patriots and their philanthropic-minded owner, Robert Kraft. A few weeks later, they’ll be cheering on a very different football team backed by Kraft — a team of young women, many of them Orthodox Jews. Kraft does…
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News Sharon Adviser Weighs Romanian Pol’s Offer
JERUSALEM — A political consultant to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is weighing an offer to work for a right-wing Romanian presidential candidate with a history of antisemitic statements, despite the objections of Israeli Foreign Ministry officials and Jewish communal officials in America. Eyal Arad, an Israeli public-relations consultant who ran Sharon’s campaigns in 2001 and…
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News Moscow Moves To Install Chabad Ally as Top Rabbi
JERUSALEM — The deputy mayor of Moscow is pushing for the merger of the offices of the two rival chief rabbis of Russian Jewry, the Forward has learned, in what is being seen as a bid by the government to install one as the sole representative of the divided community. The deputy mayor, Alexander Reisen,…
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News Moscow Moves To Install Chabad Ally as Top Rabbi
JERUSALEM — The deputy mayor of Moscow is pushing for the merger of the offices of the two rival chief rabbis of Russian Jewry, the Forward has learned, in what is being seen as a bid by the government to install one as the sole representative of the divided community. The deputy mayor, Alexander Reisen,…
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News Jerusalem Returns to Normal: That Is, Chaos, Paralysis and Strikes Abound
JERUSALEM — Things were briefly back to normal in government offices last week, and that meant chaos. For the last three months, a rolling series of work stoppages, slowdowns and outright strikes have brought Israel’s infamous government bureaucracy to a virtual standstill. The result has been a nightmare for those needing anything from a driver’s…
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News Mob Violence Spurs Israeli Crackdown on Organized Crime
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has decided to make the fight against organized crime a national priority, following the deaths last week of three bystanders during a failed assassination attempt against a reputed leading Tel Aviv crime boss. Following Sunday’s Cabinet meeting — devoted almost entirely to the issue of fighting crime — Internal Security…
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News Worshippers Indicted After Entering Palestinian Areas
JERUSALEM — In a move intended to deter Israelis from entering Palestinian-controlled areas, Israeli state prosecutors have filed charges against a group of Bratslav chasidim who illegally went to pray at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus last week — and were attacked by Palestinian gunmen as they left the site. Eight of the 16 Jews who…
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