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New York adjusts candidate petition dates for Shavuot

New York State moved up the launch of petition drives for primary candidates because the original date fell during Shavuot.

Are women kosher supervisors a step toward gender equality?

Some women who took the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s kosher supervision exam last week — the first time the exam was open to women — see the development as entrenching, not changing, female roles in Orthodoxy.

With dishwasher-sized craft, Israeli Lunar XPrize team shoots for the moon

Despite long odds, the Israeli startup SpaceIL is hoping to win Google’s $20 million prize and make the Jewish state only the fourth country to land a craft on the moon.