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November 2002

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week declined to rehear the Tenafly, N.J., case against an eruv erected two years ago by a group of Orthodox Jews in the borough. The court’s decision means the symbolic boundary that allows observant Jews to carry objects outside their homes on Shabbat can remain in place. […]

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Dreadlocks are a popular hairstyle among vinyl-spinning deejays. Kipas in this crowd are rare. Aaron Bisman wears both. The 22-year-old New York University graduate is scheming to make dreadlocks with skullcaps a more widespread phenomenon. When he’s not at the turntables, promoting artists at Ropeadope Records or teaching Hebrew school to seventh-graders, Bisman is cranking […]

Jewish communal groups that run social service programs breathed a collective sigh of relief this weekend when the City Council restored about $3 million in proposed cuts that would have severely curtailed their operations. But the groups, like their counterparts in other communities, know they’ve likely received only a temporary reprieve. With a budget deficit […]

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