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As JTA’s Ami Eden explains, Natan Sharansky’s plan to convert Robinson’s Arch into an egalitarian space is not a novel idea. The arch has been discussed as a possible solution to the women’s prayer issue since the late 1990s. In 1998, a government-appointed committee suggested Robinson’s Arch as a potential site for mixed-gender services, but […]

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If there is an opera equivalent to the Sistine Chapel, then Marc Chagall is our Michelangelo. In 1963, the ceiling of the Paris Opera needed a new paint job. André Malraux, France’s then-Minister of Culture, tapped the internationally acclaimed artist. A maelstrom of anti-Semitism erupted, including articles expressing outrage over the idea of a Russian Jew decorating a French […]

Kosher consumers in Los Angeles are still reeling from the scandal at Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats, in which non-glatt meats (and possibly non-kosher products) were passed off as glatt, or premium kosher. This is hardly the first time kosher purveyors have been caught in the act of deception.   In 2006, wholesaler Shevach Meats of […]

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