December 30, 2005

My father would never consider himself a religious man. Born in Berlin in a Jewish household that our family always called the most assimilated of the assimilated, he was raised without a Jewish education; his parents’ home had a Christmas tree every December, but no Chanukah menorah. Fleeing with his family in 1938, he made […]

Congregants at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons on Sunday voted nearly 2-to-1 to oust the board of trustees and retain their rabbi at a meeting that drew more than 800 people, or 78 percent of the Reform congregation’s membership. But the results may be invalidated on Tuesday after a Supreme Court judge hears arguments […]