Robert Ilich
By Robert Ilich
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News A Jewish Claim to Human Rights
Human rights are breaking out all over. (When they’re not being tamped down and trampled, that is.) What role does Judaism play? Earlier this week at Cardozo Law School in Manhattan, the topic of human rights and Judaism was explored in a panel discussion involving three top legal minds as well as a history professor….
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News Old Texts and Modern Politics
The Tea Party and the Talmud … do those things really belong in the same sentence? At a recent seminar sponsored by the Institute of American and Talmudic Law — a Manhattan provider of continuing legal education courses for lawyers — two Jewish scholars explored the Tea Party movement, the law, and the principles that…
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Fast Forward A synagogue that survived the Palisades fire has become a ‘refuge’ for many who lost their homes
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