Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Church-State Gadfly Roils Military, Rips Jewish Brass
In the face of mounting Republican opposition, a fiery Air Force veteran-turned-gadfly is stepping up his fight to stop Christian proselytizing in the military, and criticizing Jewish groups for not doing more to help his cause. U.S. Air Force Academy alumnus and church-state activist Mikey Weinstein is leading the charge against an amendment to the…
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News Rethinking the Meaning of Mikveh
For the traditional Orthodox woman, visiting a mikveh generally serves as both a method for regulating sexual relations with a husband and a way of preparing for the possibility of pregnancy after another month in which a menstrual period came and went. But for Conservative Jew Susan Heffron, it was both an opportunity to find…
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News Rabbinical Students Focus on Activism
After several years of volunteering in a soup kitchen, rabbinical student Stephanie Kolin felt like a modern-day Sisyphus, pushing the rock of poverty endlessly uphill. “Every Monday I would go, and every Monday the same people would come back,” said Kolin, a fifth-year student at the New York campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of…
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News With Major D.C. Rally, Former Pol Sets New Communal Course
WASHINGTON — Among the tens of thousands of people who gathered in Washington Sunday to press for greater intervention in Darfur, there were a number of speakers known for garnering accolades, including Oscar-winner George Clooney, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and Olympic speed-skating gold medalist Joey Cheek. Then there was Ruth Messinger, a woman who is…
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News Rabbi Enters Falwell’s Bastion And Issues Plea for Tolerance
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Addressing one of the country’s most influential Christian fundamentalist colleges this week, the leader of America’s largest synagogue movement highlighted areas of common concern while calling for mutual respect and toleration of diversity. I can “believe what I believe without calling you a homophobic bigot, and you can do the same without…
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News Major Effort To Stir Action On Darfur Lowers Sights
After months of mobilizing for what has been described as a major effort to stop an unfolding genocide, planners of next week’s national action for Darfur are now speaking in measured terms of a radically more modest effort. Leaders of the main effort, scheduled for April 30 in Washington, were reluctant to offer projections of…
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News Spouses Influence Converts’ Commitment
A new qualitative study on interfaith families argues that it is a mistake to view converts to Judaism as a single class. In her new study, “Choosing Jewish: Conversations About Conversion,” Brandeis University Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman attempts to explain why non-Jews convert and how their conversions affect the wider Jewish community. She divides converts…
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News JTS Pick: ‘Heschel My Hero,’ Yes To Ordaining Gay Rabbis
Arnold Eisen traveled to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America 35 years ago, ostensibly to interview the legendary professor Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel for the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania. But for the young religious studies major the encounter with the spiritual icon and civil rights activist was more than just an assignment….
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