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• One Jew’s Orlando dilemma: Mickey Mouse or Jesus Christ?

  January 28, 2016 4:01pm

  JTA’s Uriel Heilman tours Orlando’s biblical theme park, the Holy Land Experience, and finds a mixing of the Old Testament with the New.

• Poll: 10% of Americans ‘less likely’ to vote for a Jew for president

  January 27, 2016 10:01am

  Being an evangelical Christian candidate for president is twice as great a liability as being a Jewish candidate, according to the Pew survey.

• Orthodox billionaire: Why I bought scandal-plagued kosher giant Agriprocessors

  January 21, 2016 4:02pm

  The Canadian billionaire talks about Agri Star’s efforts to improve animal welfare, why all Israelis are schnorrers and why some Israelis prefer candles to electricity.

• Jewish pediatrician murdered by husband in Scarsdale home, police say

  January 21, 2016 10:45am

  Julius Reich has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Dr. Robin Goldman, a prominent pediatrician, at their suburban New York mansion.

• Rabbi Lila Kagedan poised to make history with job at Orthodox shul

  January 13, 2016 4:36pm

  Kagedan is the first ordainee of Yeshivat Maharat to call herself a rabbi and land a job at an Orthodox synagogue.

• County drops bid to disqualify Hasidic votes in Bloomingburg, NY

  January 11, 2016 11:43am

  A county board of elections in upstate New York has ended its fight to disqualify the votes of Hasidic residents of the village of Bloomingburg.

• Will 2016 be the year of the female Orthodox rabbi?

  January 5, 2016 2:45pm

  And other Jewish storylines to watch this year.

• Marc Gafni repudiated again by Renewal group after airing of sexual behavior

  December 30, 2015 11:23am

  The Jewish Renewal movement reiterated its ban in the wake of a New York Times story about the troubled sexual past of the ex-Orthodox rabbi, now a polyamorous spiritualist.

• Barry Freundel’s former DC synagogue trying to move past mikvah trauma

  December 28, 2015 9:01am

  More than a year since the rabbi was hauled away in handcuffs for installing secret cameras at his synagogue’s mikvah, his crime still casts a shadow over Kesher Israel.

• Silent night: How the Hasidim observe Christmas Eve

  December 22, 2015 10:29am

  Christmas Eve occupies a special place on the Hasidic calendar as a kind of “silent night,” when Torah study ceases — and then resumes full force at midnight.