Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Criminal Case Dropped, Rabbi Faces Calls To Resign
Israel’s Ashkenazic chief rabbi has escaped criminal charges after a 16-month investigation, but the country’s attorney general is calling for his resignation. Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger was investigated for allegedly accepting improper perks and double billing the Israeli government for living expenses. On Monday, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz closed the criminal case against Metzger…
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News A Mexican Matzo Plant Presses On
For Mexico City’s David and Hershl Fiiller, making matzo is a family tradition with trans-Atlantic roots. The brothers, children of Polish immigrants who arrived in the 1920s, grew up helping their parents in the bakery adjoining their small downtown abode. Today the site is home to the Fiiller bread factory, a 4,000-square-foot facility with 25…
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News Conservative Rabbi, in Swan Song, Warns Against Liberal Shift
MEXICO CITY — In a final address to his fellow Conservative rabbis as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Ismar Schorsch accused his liberal colleagues of undermining the movement’s historic commitment to faith, intellectualism and rabbinic law. Speaking Sunday in Mexico City at the annual convention of the movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, Schorsch…
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News Rabbis Do the Conga in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — At the annual convention of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly this week, the nametags were green and white, the complimentary bags were woven in bright colors and the R.A. logo wore a sombrero in honor of the Mexican hosts. The international, 1,600-member rabbinical union held its weeklong parley in a gleaming hotel…
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News Stars Still Shine On 2nd Avenue Walk of Fame Survives Deli’s Demise But Its Fate is Unclear
The kitchen equipment and famous blue sign with Hebrew-style lettering were carted away when the Second Avenue Deli shut its doors in January, but the restaurant’s monument to Yiddish theater is staying — at least for now. The Yiddish Walk of Fame, a double row of granite stars embedded in the sidewalk in front of…
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News Gay Issues Roil Rabbis In Advance Of Parley
On the eve of their annual convention, Conservative rabbis are locked in a fierce debate over whether movement leaders have employed improper tactics to preserve the ban on gay clergy and same-sex marriage. The fight is expected to play out in Mexico City next week, at the annual parley of the Rabbinical Assembly, the 1,600-member…
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News Conservatives Postpone Gay Vote
The top lawmaking body of Conservative Judaism has postponed a vote on whether to overturn the movement’s ban on same-sex marriage and the ordination of openly gay clergy. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, a 25-member panel of rabbis and lay leaders, held a two-day summit in Maryland this week to consider four separate…
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News Prestigious Book Prize Seeks More Popular Profile
In less than a decade, the Koret International Jewish Book Awards have earned a reputation for spotlighting excellence. The only problem is that unless you’re an aficionado of the Jewish literary scene, you’ve probably never heard of them. Now, in a dramatic shift, the backers of the awards — the San Francisco-based Koret Foundation Funds…
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