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NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (JTA) — A group of influential Orthodox rabbis has thrown its weight behind prenuptial agreements in an effort to persuade more young couples to sign such documents before they marry. Eleven roshei yeshiva, or senior professors of Talmud, at the rabbinical school of Yeshiva University, have signed on to a statement […]

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JERUSALEM, Feb. 22 (JTA) — Prime Minister Ehud Barak is trying to sound conciliatory, but a growing number of Palestinian officials see only intransigence and are beginning to compare him to his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu. Meeting this week with U.S. Middle East peace envoy Dennis Ross, Barak offered to be flexible in an effort to […]

NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (JTA) — What does it say about a conference on Orthodoxy and feminism when perhaps as many as half the participants insist they are not feminists? It says that it’s an Orthodox conference. Feminism, described only half-jokingly by one keynote speaker as “the F-word” in Orthodoxy, is a loaded term, though […]

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