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September 15, 2006

Ronald P. Stanton is hoping his gift to Yeshiva University, announced this week, will spur other Jewish philanthropists to give to major donations to Jewish causes in general and YU in particular. At $100 million — what appears to be the largest gift ever to a Jewish educational institution — it certainly will attract attention. […]

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In his overwhelming victory Tuesday, Eliot Spitzer made history as the first Jewish Democrat nominated for governor in more than 60 years. If he prevails over Republican John Faso in November’s general election, hewould be the state’s second Jewish governor and the first since HerbertLehman served from 1932 to 1948. Spitzer, the popular attorney general […]

If you keep close tabs on the Orthodox in America, you probably know Samuel Heilman’s name. He’s been keeping tabs himself on the subject for years, having written numerous articles and two books about Judiasm’s most rigidly observant stream. “It seems to endlessly reinvent itself in ways that I find sociologically interesting and culturally curious,” […]

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