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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Rabbi Says He’s Against Death Penalty For Synagogue Shooter
(JTA) — Don’t seek the death penalty for the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman. That’s the message from a spiritual leader at one of the three congregations that share the Tree of Life synagogue building to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, whose New Light Congregation lost three worshippers in the October attack by Robert…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Accused of Sexual Harassment Resigns After Second Woman Comes Forward
(JTA) — A rabbi accused of sending sexually inappropriate text and voice messages to a woman living on a Tacoma-area military base is resigning his position. “I write to notify you that I am resigning my position as Rabbi of Chabad of Pierce County effective Sunday, August 11, 2019,” Rabbi Zalman Heber said in a…
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Fast Forward Rabbi And Sons Attacked, Spit On In Munich
(JTA) — A rabbi and his two sons said they were spit on and verbally attacked as they left a synagogue in Munich, Germany. A man approached the rabbi, 53, and his sons, both 19, and yelled anti-Semitic slurs as they left a central synagogue on Saturday, The Associated Press reported. A woman in a…
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Fast Forward Body Of Rabbi Who Drowned After Rescuing Students Found
(JTA) — A body believed to be that of a rabbi who jumped into the ocean to save a student was found off the coast of North Carolina. Volunteers looking for Reuven Bauman, 35, found the body Sunday, five days after the teacher at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Norfolk, Virginia jumped into choppy water at…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Missing After Jumping In Ocean To Rescue Student
(JTA) — The U.S. Coast Guard will continue what it is calling a recovery mission for a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in a state park in Virginia Beach, Virginia to save a student who was having trouble returning to shore. The 11-year-old student, who was at False Cape State Park on Tuesday afternoon…
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The Schmooze Naomi Campbell And Paula Abdul Pay Tribute To…The Lubavitcher Rebbe
25 years ago this week, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad Hassidic movement who some Jews believe to be the messiah, died. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, a biographer of Schneerson, who was known to his followers as The Rebbe, says, “He really established what is, as far as I know, the first attempt…
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The Schmooze A Queer, Butch Woman Rabbi On Television? Meet Jen Kober, Of ‘Dead To Me.’
A non-exhaustive history of rabbis on television shows: The rabbi on “Seinfeld”? A man. The rabbi on “The West Wing”? A man. The rabbi on “Seventh Heaven”? A man. The rabbi on “Gossip Girl”? A man. The rabbi on “Grey’s Anatomy”? A man. The rabbi on “The Mindy Project”? A man. The rabbi on “Curb…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Accused Of Sexual Assault Has Paid Virtually None Of $21.7 Million Settlement To Alleged Victim: Lawsuit
A Connecticut rabbi found liable in a federal civil court case connected to the sexual assault of a yeshiva student has paid virtually none of the $21.7 million in damages awarded to the victim, according to a new lawsuit filed by the victim, the New Haven Register reported. In May 2017, a jury in Hartford…
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