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NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (JTA) – Call him Yishai. With word of his out-of-wedlock child on the newsstands, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is seeking comfort from Jewish sources: the biblical story of Judah and Tamar. Jackson, a prominent civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate whose relations with the Jewish community have not always been […]

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NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (JTA) – Breaking a months-long lull in the struggle for Jewish religious pluralism, an Orthodox leader has accused Conservative Judaism of being a “lie.” In a lengthy feature article in the February-March issue of Moment magazine, Rabbi Avi Shafran, spokesman for the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America, writes that the […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (JTA) – The executive vice president of the Orthodox Union has resigned – apparently under pressure – in the latest development in a case that has gripped the centrist Orthodox group for months. Rabbi Raphael Butler had come under fire for not disciplining Rabbi Baruch Lanner, a high-ranking professional in the […]

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