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Fast Forward Lakewood Haredi Rabbi Accused In Sprawling $1M Benefits Scam
A New Jersey rabbi and his wife were arrested with three other Jewish couples for underreporting their incomes to receive government benefits. The couples, including the rabbi’s brother and wife, were arrested Monday in raids that resulted from an investigation into Lakewood, a New Jersey town that is home to a large haredi Orthodox community. More arrests are expected,…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbi Found Dead At Jewish Summer Camp
(JTA) — A haredi Orthodox rabbi was found dead at a Jewish camp in upstate New York. Rabbi Pinchas Elya Weinberger, 38, was found on Monday morning dead in his bed at Kasho Camp in the Town of Wawarsing, New York. An investigation by the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office found that the rabbi died of…
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Fast Forward Israel Moves To Reject Conversions Except By Orthodox Rabbinate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee has approved the advance of a bill that would require the state to recognize only conversions completed under the auspices of the haredi Orthodox-dominated Chief Rabbinate. The measure would circumvent a March 2016 Supreme Court ruling that allowed those undergoing private Orthodox conversions in Israel to become citizens under…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Slam Hillel For Taking Funds From Right-Wing Israeli Group
More than 100 rabbis and rabbinical students have signed a letter calling on Hillel to sever ties with a right-wing Israeli funder and drop its guidelines on discourse about Israel. In the letter, the religious leaders – many of them identified as LGBT – denounce Hillel’s links with Mosaic United, an initiative sponsored by Israel’s…
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Opinion What Do Interfaith Families Want From Rabbis?
In the most recent round of wrestling over interfaith marriage, we have heard from rabbis, academics and community leaders. As someone in the middle generation of a three-generation interfaith family, one founded in 1960 when my Jewish father married my Protestant mother, I thought it might be useful to weigh in. In doing so, I…
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Breaking News 80% Of Reform Rabbis Are Democrats — Even Orthodox Lean To Liberal Side Of Aisle
(JTA) — The vast majority of Reform and Conservative rabbis affiliate as Democrats, according to a new study. The study, published Sunday by Yale University, found that more than 80 percent of Reform rabbis, and about 70 percent of Conservative rabbis, affiliate as Democrats. Both were among the top five most Democratic clergy of the…
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Fast Forward 1,800 Rabbis Call On Israel To End Occupation And Create Palestinian State
(JTA) — A letter calling on Israel to end the military occupation of the West Bank and lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state was delivered on behalf 1,800 American rabbis and cantors to the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. The letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was written on behalf of the members of…
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News How Rabbis Are Trying To Make The Conservative Movement More Gay-Friendly
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony known as a bar mitzvah is always challenging. It happens at the awkward age of the early teen years, and requires the child to chant, before family, friends and congregation, from the archaic Hebrew of the Torah. For Amichai Lau-Lavie, the Israeli-born scion of an Eastern European rabbinical dynasty, it was…
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