Rebecca Dube
By Rebecca Dube
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News For Pets, a Temporary Shelter From the Storm
Robin Nafshi has always loved animals. And she’s always loved Judaism. But until recently, the Reform rabbi thought that never the twain shall meet. All that’s changed, though, as Nafshi, president of a new kind of animal sanctuary in New Jersey, is creating avenues for animal-loving Jews to connect their faith with their furry friends….
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News Faith-Based Reform Veers Into Israeli Policy
A task force charged with improving the White House’s faith-based initiative program has waded into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, raising eyebrows and concern among Jewish leaders. Most of the attention around the controversial Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, begun by President George W. Bush and continued by President Obama, has centered on church-state separation issues….
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Life The Madoff Mash
Bernard Madoff got in his first prison fight last week. And according to an account in the New York Post, the convicted Ponzi schemer emerged victorious. The bout was no Ali vs. Foreman. Apparently, Madoff, 71, who is serving a 150-year sentence at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., got into a heated argument with…
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Life E-mailing with Evil: Covering Westboro Baptist Church
Reporter’s Notebook Often my job as a news reporter gives me the chance to talk to fascinating, thoughtful people whom I’d otherwise never get to meet. Other times, it puts me in contact with characters who make me want to reach for the brain bleach. This week was one of the latter occasions, as I…
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News How To Handle Hate: Jews Debate Response to the Westboro Road Show
Wearing a T-shirt that proclaimed “God Hates Fags” and waving a quartet of antisemitic signs on the busy street corner, Shirley Phelps-Roper was getting exactly what she wanted: attention. “You killed Jesus, you need to repent,” she called out calmly in front of Beth Chayim Chadashim, a Reform synagogue in Los Angeles, where she and…
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News Vatican’s New Defense on Child Molestation Charges: Finger-pointing
The Jews and Protestants are worse. That appears to be the Vatican’s newest defense of its ongoing child sex-abuse scandal. Responding to criticism, Catholic Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s representative to United Nations organizations in Geneva, read a statement on September 21 to the U.N. Human Rights Council, noting that reports of sex abuse were…
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News ‘Death Panels’ Obscure Real End-of-Life Challenges
Even with the recent hue and cry during the health care debate over so-called “death panels,” Jewish experts on end-of-life issues say they have a tough time drawing attention to the real questions about medical interventions, care and spending in the final years and months of life. “The majority of our people do not know…
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News A Bit of Flair With Their Frum
To outsiders, the long black coats worn by Haredi men might all look the same. Upon closer inspection, though, there’s nothing uniform about them. Enterprising tailor Mendy Sacho, 25, has built a successful couture business in Toronto over the past three years, catering to a mostly Orthodox clientele who like a bit of flair with…
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