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WHIPPANY, N.J., April 24 (JTA) — American Jews say their personal identity as Jews is more affected by Israel’s peace policies toward the Palestinians than by its policies on religious pluralism. The margin was more than 2-to-1, with 44.6 percent saying Israel’s peace policies more strongly affected their Jewish identities, compared to just 19.8 percent […]

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NEW YORK, April 24 (JTA) — When Rebecca Shaloff left her suburban Washington home for a college campus, she also left behind the comforts of her lifelong affiliation with her Jewish community. It wasn’t until Purim, when she heard the Megillah in a California town with 10 peers from the University of Maryland Hillel chapter […]

NEW YORK, April 23 (JTA) —Yeshiva University is enmeshed in its own battle over gay and lesbian couples less than a month after the Reform movement affirmed the right of its rabbis to officiate at same-gender commitment ceremonies. Two lesbian students and a gay-lesbian-bisexual student group are suing Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine […]

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