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How synagogues and day schools are failing people with disabilities

Jewish institutions lack the will, and the funding, to open their doors to everyone, writes the CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Rabbi Rachel Cowan, pioneer in the Jewish healing movement, dies at 77

Cowan completed her rabbinic studies at Hebrew Union College after the death of her husband in 1988, eight years after her official conversion to Judaism.

1 dead, 17 sick from salmonella in Empire Kosher chicken

Israel bans popular Juul e-cigarette

Circumcising babies increases risk of cot death, contested new study suggests

Norwegian hospitals refuse to assist in circumcisions

Israeli bill allows surrogacy for single women, denies it to same-sex couples

Brett Kavanaugh nomination sets up battles over abortion, health care and religion

Immunotherapy treatments being developed in Israel offer new hope for cancer patients

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