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June 16, 2006

New York State’s health commissioner struck an accord this week with an organization of fervently Orthodox rabbis based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the controversial practice of metzitzah b’peh, or oral suctioning by a mohel of blood from a circumcision wound. But separate discussions are continuing with New York City’s health commissioner, who has been discouraging […]

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An elite gathering of Jewish leaders convened by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute met this week with a mission no less grand than charting the future of the Jewish people. But women apparently weren’t a part of that future: None were on the list of participants. To gender equity activist Shifra Bronznick, and quite […]

Jewish organizations get a lot of mileage out of high-octane talk demanding energy independence, but the American Jewish Committee is really gassed up and ready to go on the issue. This week the group announced a first in the Jewish world: it will offer employees incentives to purchase or lease gas-sipping hybrid vehicles. The Fuel […]

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