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Friday Five: The Pope, Joan Rivers, Iris Richman, Philip Roth and Frederick Cohn

Pope Francis I, Joan Rivers, Iris Richman, Philip Roth and Frederick Cohn make JTA’s weekly Friday Five list.

The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association has elected an openly gay rabbi to lead the national rabbinic organization.

Since the late 1990s, a number of rabbis have been holding sober seders for recovering Jewish alcoholics. The practice has spread all over the world.