Culture

The program is out for the Jan. 21 post-inauguration prayer service, and as reported yesterday, rabbis from the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements will all be participating. Reform Rabbi David Saperstein will be reading a psalm, according to a press release from the inaugural committee. Conservative Rabbi Jerome Epstein and Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein will […]

JTA’s Ron Kampeas wrote about Barack Obama’s plans to rejuvenate the black-Jewish alliance, and this weekend the American Jewish Commitee and the New York Archdiocese’s Office of Black Ministry are holding a conference in New Orleans to talk about that alliance. From the AJC press release: Against a backdrop of a strongly divided America, the […]